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I used ChatGPT to sue a Norwegian airline from New York and get $4760 — 20 points · 8 comments on Hacker News
collected 2026-07-22original 2026-07-22

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Great, we will go from slop reports in security to slop lawsuits.
@elmer2 · Hacker News · ▲ 2 · 4h ago · read →
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…
@bcye · Hacker News · ▲ 2 · 3h ago · read →
Does that Norwegian guy really want his email floating around the internet for bots to scrape and randos to spam?
@mint5 · Hacker News · ▲ 1 · 3h ago · read →
OP here. I wrote this up because the discourse around AI in legal contexts usually swings between "it replaces everyone" and "it hallucinates case law and gets you sanctioned." This was the case in the middle, where it actually shone: navigating an international dispute in a…
@Panos · Hacker News · ▲ 1 · 3h ago · read →
Point well taken. :-) I actually touch on this exact risk at the very end of the post. AI can automate drafting and knowledge retrieval, but that is only a fraction of the overall process. The legal system is fundamentally slow, by design. It still took 11 months of waiting…
@Panos · Hacker News · ▲ 0 · 3h ago · read →
Impact on the index
Regulation · major
US -110China +30
Directional contribution — before recency decay and per-type diminishing returns. How it works →
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