A recent article discusses whether ChatGPT can help win Powerball, concluding it cannot improve odds but may help winners keep more money by avoiding popular number patterns. In September 2025, Tammy Carvey of Michigan won $100,000 and Carrie Edwards of Virginia won $150,000 using ChatGPT-generated numbers, but the article notes both wins are real yet prove nothing due to survivorship bias. Each woman matched four white balls plus the Powerball, a prize paying $50,000 before a Power Play multiplier, at odds of about 1 in 913,000. Powerball's jackpot odds are 1 in 292,201,338, and every combination has the same chance; past drawings add no signal. The article cites a study of roughly 33 million lottery selections showing players crowd into birthdays, favor low numbers and the number 7, and love neat patterns, meaning popular lines get chosen by thousands. This only matters if you win, as in 2005 when 110 people matched all five white balls after playing a sequence printed inside fortune cookies. The article advises distrusting fluent AI explanations as evidence of prediction, emphasizing AI cannot predict independent random events.