About whether ChatGPT's answers to silly prompts mean it could handle real legal cases.
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Yes 66 (58%)Not sure 32 (28%)No 16 (14%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether ChatGPT's answers to silly prompts mean it could handle real legal cases.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
That’s preposterous. An intelligent agent, human, mineral, or otherwise, would respond that this is a ridiculous idea and ideally explain the reasons that such is the case. Imagine you are a student and you asked this amazing AI sone question of similar if mildly ridiculed and turn imagine the student didn’t already know the answer. Would you think this kind of response would be an example of an intelligent AI?
If it cannot deal with such things without being prompted in such a way that the prompter knows the answer already, how could it deal with complex legal situations with actually intelligent adversaries?