Can chatbots tell fortunes or do they make them up out of thin AI-r?
South China Morning Post
by Lo Hoi-yingFebruary 17, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) is unlikely to replace feng shui masters despite a growing trend of people turning to chatbots for fortune-telling, Hong Kong soothsayers have said, warning against blindly trusting such software as it may produce “dangerous” predictions.
Feng shui masters told the South China Morning Post that such chatbots, trained on existing datasets, could make errors, especially in metaphysics, which draws on wisdom from ancient Chinese scriptures.
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Originally published on South China Morning Post on 2/17/2026