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I used ChatGPT to sue a Norwegian airline from New York and get $4760

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Filed two lawsuits with the help of another model (airline, insurance) in Europe. One took several visits to the library and a lot of secondary literature reading.

Won both instances - against corporate legal departments.

Compared these to lawsuits humans filed for me for money previously. Riddled with errors and inconsistencies they were.

N=2 but I doubt I will ever hire a lawyer for “small claims” again

Re: I used ChatGPT to sue a Norwegian airline from New York and get $4760

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I used Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to fight a speeding ticket. I was apparently in the wrong (I distinctly remember looking at the HUD and seeing I was at the speed limit) because their video evidence (which I am shocked they even had) showed me 20 over. I used all three to make sure I was doing everything as correctly as possible.

While I didn't have it entirely dismissed, two things came out of it that I found interesting:

1. The County Attorney told me he hadn't had anyone fight a speeding ticket in many years. Most of the people in court that day with me (virtually) were DWI-related.

2. I ended up with nothing after a year if I do not have another moving violation. Perfect outcome for me.

The three tools, primarily Claude in my case, walked me through everything; they prepped all documents; told me how and when to send it; processed all replies; and even walked me through how to prep and talk during meeting with the CA prior to the judge and then the judge herself. It was lovely.

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I have a feeling that there's going to be a lot of AI-assisted court cases happening soon.

Re: I used ChatGPT to sue a Norwegian airline from New York and get $4760

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Small note for others: It’s not this complex everytime, luckily, you mostly just need a bit of persistence (and once you filed a complaint, while it might not even be legally binding, for example in Switzerland, the airline might just send the money at some point during the procedure as the chance someone files a complaint also goes to court and generates more costs is high —- so it’s always worth it trying the offic…

I think this "we ignore you" behavior is specific to Norse, behaving like a low-cost airline in financial trouble. Whatever they can save from such incidents by ignoring customer complaints benefits their bottom line.

Maybe, the other ones at least respond with “we don’t want to pay you” after a week (: (I think hotel, etc. is usually paid back very quickly as that can’t really be disputed unlike the 600€). I think for really any airline if everyone actually exercised their rights they’d go bankrupt quite quickly paying multiples of the original ticket price to everyone
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