WASHINGTON — A Michigan woman won the lottery last month with a little unexpected help.
Tammy Carvey of Wyandotte won $100,000 in the Sept. 6 Powerball drawing after using a set of numbers generated by ChatGPT. She recently visited the Michigan Lottery headquarters to claim her prize and told officials the story.
“I only play Powerball when the jackpot gets up there and the jackpot was over $1 billion, so I bought a ticket,” the 45-year-old, who bought her ticket as the Powerball jackpot rose to the second highest in history — $1.787 billion — said in a release from the Michigan Lottery.
“I asked ChatGPT for a set of Powerball numbers and those are the numbers I played," she said.
Carvey matched four white balls and the Powerball, which normally wins $50,000. Since she paid extra