S. Korea's blind fortune-tellers could not see AI coming
CLIENTS have drifted away from Song Oh-soon’s fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online artificial intelligence-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practiced there.
The ancient practice of fortune-telling in Seoul's Mia village is declining as clients turn to online AI-powered divination. At 86 years old, Song Oh-soon is one of the last visually impaired practitioners in a community that once had 70-80 members. Song relies on Braille astrology and her decades of experience in listening, skills her AI competitors cannot match. Despite the village's decline, Song believes that one's fate is not set in stone.
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