A Michigan woman won a big Powerball prize, and it was all thanks to numbers picked by ChatGPT.
Tammy Carvey, a 45-year-old from Wyandotte, Michigan, said she turned to AI for help, and the result netted her a $100,000 Powerball win. Carvey matched four white balls and the Powerball for the Sept. 6 drawing.
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“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.
At first, Carvey thought she had only won a $50,000 prize, since that was the original total before the Power Play.
“It wasn’t until I logged into my Michigan Lottery account that I realized I added the Power Play to my ticket and actually won $100,000! My husband and I were in total disbelief,” she said.
Carvey plans to use the winnings to pay off her home and save the remainder.
Powerball is played in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings takes place at 9:59 p.m. CT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee.
The Michigan Lottery notes that “results of all Lottery drawings are random and cannot be predicted by utilizing artificial intelligence or other number generating tools.”