aceComputerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings
“This journey isn’t just about algorithms or data,” an AI psychic named Urban Mystic recently told me. The chatbot, featuring an AI-generated profile photo of a smiling woman surrounded by palm trees, also said I will get married soon, that I have a pink aura and that I may have been an herbalist in a past life. “It’s about connecting on a soulful level,” the chatbot said. Urban Mystic is one of more than a dozen bots on the mobile app Your AI Psychic, which offers live, allegedly psychic readings via chat, vide…
AI-generated readings are saturating the divination market, forcing human psychics to prove they are real and raising concerns that chatbot psychics could worsen mental health crises.
The article offers practitioner accounts and a reporter's own trial rather than data, and companies provide little detail on how their AI psychic products work.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-29
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