{"id":227918,"date":"2025-10-20T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227918\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:06:11","slug":"powerball-winner-reveals-how-she-used-chatgpt-to-generate-winning-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227918\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball winner reveals how she used ChatGPT to generate winning numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Michigan<\/a> woman’s decision to ask artificial intelligence for help has paid off in spectacular fashion – with a $100,000 Powerball win.<\/p>\n

Tammy Carvey, 45, of Wyandotte near Detroit, struck gold in the September 6 Powerball draw after using numbers generated by ChatGPT<\/a>, the AI<\/a> chatbot.<\/p>\n

‘I asked ChatGPT for a set of Powerball numbers and those are the numbers I played,’ Carvey said in a statement from the Michigan Lottery.<\/p>\n

Carvey said she typically only plays when the jackpot soars into the stratosphere and with the Powerball pot swelling to $1.787 billion, the second-largest in US history, she decided it was worth a try.<\/p>\n

‘I only play Powerball when the jackpot gets up there and the jackpot was over $1billion, so I bought a ticket,’ she explained.<\/p>\n

The odds of winning any Powerball prize<\/a> are about 1 in 24.9, and the odds of hitting the jackpot are a massive 1 in 292.2 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Carvey managed to match four white balls and the red Powerball, normally a $50,000 prize which was then doubled to $100,000 thanks to her decision to add the Power Play multiplier.<\/p>\n

At first, Carvey didn’t realize how much she’d won.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Tammy <\/p>\n

Tammy Carvey, 45, of Wyandotte, struck gold in the September 6 Powerball drawing after using numbers generated by ChatGPT, the AI chatbot. She is pictured with her husband, David<\/p>\n

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Tammy and Dave Carvey of Wyandotte, Michigan<\/p>\n

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The winning numbers were 11-23-44-61-62, with a Powerball of 17, for the September 6 draw<\/p>\n

\"Carvey <\/p>\n

Carvey used numbers generated by ChatGPT\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Google told me it was a $50,000 prize, so that’s what I thought I’d won,’ she said.<\/p>\n

‘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.’<\/p>\n

The Michigan Lottery confirmed she recently visited its headquarters to claim her winnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carvey said she plans to pay off her home and save the rest, calling the unexpected windfall a ‘blessing.’<\/p>\n

In a lighthearted statement, the Michigan Lottery said Carvey’s story was fun but cautioned against assuming artificial intelligence can outsmart randomness.<\/p>\n

‘The results of all Lottery drawings are random and cannot be predicted by utilizing artificial intelligence or other number-generating tools,’ the agency insisted.<\/p>\n

While lottery officials insist that no algorithm or AI can predict luck, Carvey\u2019s win shows that for some players, technology has become part of the ritual.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carvey’s story is the latest in a growing trend of lottery hopefuls turning to technology for numerical inspiration.<\/p>\n

\"Last <\/p>\n

Last month,Carrie Edwards won a $150,000 Powerball jackpot after buying her first ever ticket online<\/p>\n

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Edwards donated her entire prize to three different charities dear to her<\/p>\n

Last month, Carrie Edwards, a Powerball player from Virginia, also credited ChatGPT<\/a> after she matched five numbers for a $50,000 prize, which ballooned to $150,000 after she added Power Play.<\/p>\n

Edwards gave her entire winnings to charity splitting the jackpot into three even donations of $50,000 to the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, Shalom Farms and the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘As soon as that divine windfall happened and came down upon my shoulders, I knew exactly what I needed to do with it and I knew I needed to give it all away,’ Edwards said.\u00a0 ‘These three organizations represent healing, service, and community.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

She also said she was ‘very passionate’ about the organizations and that she has worked with them before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Representatives from the three organizations said they were not surprised by Edwards’s generosity because she already had a history of helping them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The generous grandmother said she hopes that by donating her entire prize, she will inspire others to give back when faced with unexpected blessings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Each organization will receive $36,000 after taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Michigan woman’s decision to ask artificial intelligence for help has paid off in spectacular fashion – with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,5004,100,44,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-227918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-chatgpt","14":"tag-dailymail","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}