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I would take what ChatGPT tells you with a gigantic salt crystal.
Case in point: I made a fairly important purchase in a foreign country recently. The seller's countract was in the local language, which I speak for ordinary matters but not well enough to understand legalese.
The seller couldn't find how a crucial piece of the contract was translated into English, so she typed "Say this in English: the buyer has no right to pull out of the deal even in case of force majeure" in her language. ChatGPT translated it as "The buyer has the right to pull out of the deal in case of force majeure" in English. The exact opposite of what was written!
Luckily for me, while I didn't know the legal terms in the local language, I could see it was a negative sentence. So I managed to catch it and understand that the clause was in fact working against me-the-buyer, not in my favor.
I know why ChatGPT translated it that way: the force majeure clause in most contracts usually states that the deal is off in case of force majeure (force majeure usually being a euphemism for death). But in this instance, the seller turned the clause 180 degrees around, leaving my children on the hook if I snuffed it early and didn't complete the payment. ChatGPT, being nothing more than a mechanical parrot, simply repeated the most common form of force majeure clause it had been trained on.
The main takeway from this story is: you should never trust what ChatGPT says, and the more important what you ask it to tell you is to you, the more consequences you will suffer for its mistakes.
I've used it for translating reviews where the website's (or google's) translator does a terrible job. It seems to do a much better job (at least the reviews made a lot more sense and I got a lot more out of it).
But I absolutely agree, don't ever trust it to be completely accurate, especially with something important like contracts.
edit: grammar.