AI FLOP: Dutch Court Annules Couple’s Marriage Over ChatGPT Speech
It may have been artificial, but in this case, it was not intelligent.
We live in a world where the power of Artificial Intelligence is starting to impact many aspects of our lives – and not always for the best.
Case in point: a Dutch couple had their marriage annulled after the person officiating used a ChatGPT-generated speech.
Yes, you read it right.
The AI speech that was intended to be ‘playful’ but authorities decided that ‘it failed to meet legal requirements.’
This was announced in a court ruling published this week.
AI WEDDING VOWS VOIDED
A Dutch court broke the hearts of a couple after ruling that their marriage, whose wedding vows were drafted with the help of artificial intelligence, was not valid.
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Reuters reported:
“The pair from the city of Zwolle, whose names were redacted from the January 5 decision under Dutch privacy rules, argued that they had intended to marry regardless of whether the right wording was used when they took their vows.
According to the decision, the person officiating their ceremony last April 19 asked whether they would ‘continue supporting each other, teasing each other and embracing each other, even when life gets difficult’.”
“The pair said ‘I do’ and the officiant declared them ‘not only husband and wife, but above all a team, a crazy couple, each other’s love and home base’.”
The Dutch judge ruled that ‘they had not actually sworn to fulfil their marriage duties’ – something that Dutch law requires.
“’The court understands that the date in the marriage deed is important to the man and woman, but cannot ignore what the law says’. It ordered the marriage removed from the Zwolle city registry.”
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Thew couple is blaming the municipality of Zwolle for the fact that their officiant’s speech did not comply with the law.
NL Times reported:
“The Civil Code states that a marriage is official when ‘the future spouses (…) declare that they accept each other as husband and wife and that they will faithfully fulfill all duties imposed by the law on the material side’. The friend’s speech did not quite do that.
According to the couple, one of the guests raised the alarm after the ceremony with the municipal registrar, who was present to supervise. “We heard afterward that she asked the municipal registrar if this was correct. Whether it wouldn’t be better to repeat the ‘I do’ at the cake cutting. That should have happened, of course, but the registrar said it was fine. Three months later, after our honeymoon, the municipality called to say that the wedding ceremony hadn’t been fine after all.”
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