A Michigan woman won a $100,000 Powerball prize by using numbers generated by ChatGPT.
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Tammy Carvey matched four white balls and the Powerball for the Sept. 6 drawing.
“I only play Powerball when the jackpot gets up there and the jackpot was over $1 billion so I bought a ticket,” Carvey told the Michigan Lottery. “I asked ChatGPT for a set of Powerball numbers and those are the numbers I played on my ticket.
Initially thinking she had won $50,000, the 45-year-old later discovered she had added the Power Play option, doubling her prize.
“My husband and I were in total disbelief,” she said.
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She plans to use the winnings to pay off her home and save the rest.
The Michigan Lottery emphasizes that lottery results are random and cannot be predicted by AI or other number-generating tools.
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