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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Another to add to the list of things ruined by sparkling autocarrot.

A wedding. Well actually not legally a wedding anymore, cos sparkling autocarrot.

https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/07/court-zwolle-rules-couple-married-chatgpt-written-ceremony

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Jeri Dansky
Jeri Dansky
@jeridansky@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek Follow-up story: https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/09/couple-denies-using-chatgpt-wedding-ceremony-court-annuls-marriage

NL Times

Couple denies using ChatGPT for wedding ceremony after court annuls marriage

The man and woman who found out on Wednesday that their marriage had been declared invalid by the court blame the municipality of Zwolle for the fact that their officiant’s speech did not comply with the law.
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notsoloud
notsoloud
@notsoloud@expressional.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek
A Danish wedding ceremony almost got canceled because the couple had pulled a Vegas beforehand.

The vicar found out about this just in time to call the couple before the government did, and they then answered that OF COURSE the Vegas thing was intended as a legal marriage!

They then held a beautiful ceremony in church blessing their existing marriage.

If the Vegas marriage had been in doubt they could have held neither wedding nor blessing in church.

Dot your i's, kids!

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Tats 🇬🇧🫖
Tats 🇬🇧🫖
@Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek ha ha ha ha ha 🤣

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Ben Todd
Ben Todd
@monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek

Oh my days! On one of the biggest days of your life, having ChatGPT say the most important words is tragic, joke or not and marriage shouldn't be a joke. The courts were right, we can't have idiots using ChatGPT in wedding ceremonies everywhere.

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Davey
Davey
@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek how did this end up in court because I'm picturing a Dutch person attending the wedding and going "no, this is not the correct procedure, I will inform the authorities"

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NatalyaD
NatalyaD
@NatalyaD@disabled.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek One also has to wonder what the official registrar was doing; we presume they were present for a reason and didn't do their job either e.g. by intervening and checking the wording before/during/after...

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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things
Alfred Chow - Maker of Things
@Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@NatalyaD @quixoticgeek
That just made me think about our wedding.
Sue and I wrote our own vows, but I remember the registrar saying to us something like "...at this point I need to say the legal words..." so we're still good.

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Sin Vega
Sin Vega
@sinvega@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@quixoticgeek genuinely good decision by that court and I'm not just saying that out of disgust or because it's funny (though both add to it obv)

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