Win a small-claims case against a landlord
The user fed ChatGPT their claim and the other side's defense to find contradictions and draft a witness statement, winning about $400.
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- What they did
- The poster uploaded their claim and the landlord’s defence to ChatGPT, which flagged contradictions they had missed and helped draft a witness statement in a more factual, less emotional tone. They then iterated on the draft themselves, feeding back edits, asking whether specific arguments had a basis, and manually checking cited laws and links.
- How it went
- The judge ruled for the poster and awarded about $400. They said the first draft was not enough on its own, and some legal source links ChatGPT gave were outdated or broken.
- Worth knowing
- Their main catch was verification: they had to revise the draft repeatedly and sometimes hunt down updated legislation pages when ChatGPT’s links failed.
Try it yourself with ChatGPT
I'm preparing for a small-claims case against [landlord or other party] over [issue, e.g. a withheld deposit of $amount]. I'll paste in my claim and their written defense; find contradictions, unsupported statements, and gaps in their account, and cite the exact lines. Then draft a clear, factual witness statement in my voice, in chronological order, that I can review and correct before filing.
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