The first AI crisis is psychological
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THE ATLANTIC — My husband and I wanted a divorce without the divorce part. No adversarial process. No lawyers telling us what we “deserved.” We thought: Why not handle it ourselves? Lawyers are expensive; ChatGPT is cheap, even free at first. I typed: We agree on everything and want an amicable divorce. Can we write our own agreement, get it notarized, and file it ourselves without hiring lawyers? What exactly do we need to submit?
ChatGPT walked me through the steps with total confidence—draft the agreement, file the paperwork, and you can be divorced in a month. It all sounded straightforward.
What I didn’t understand—and what a bank I later tried to get a mortgage from absolutely did—was that a signed settlement agreement is not the same thing as a court-finalized divorce decree.
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