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Man uses ChatGPT to challenge traffic violation ticket in court, wins

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A 23-year-old Kazakh man recently became the first person in his country to use ChatGPT to successfully challenge a traffic violation ticket in a court of law.

In December of 2024, Kenzhebek Ismailov was driving his mother to the hospital in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, when the car in front of them stopped for no apparent reason and blocked the entire lane, which happened to be the only car lane on that particular street. The only solutions he could think of were to bypass the stalled car through the bus lane on the right, or simply wait behind the car and hold up the entire lane. He chose the first option, but his maneuver was picked up by surveillance cameras, and he soon received a ticket in the mail. The young motorist tried contesting the ticket and explaining the situation, but his complaint was rejected, so his only other course of action was to go to court. And that’s where the world’s favorite AI model, ChatGPT, comes into play.

Unfamiliar with the subtleties of court and unwilling to spend money on a lawyer to contest a 5,800 tenge ($11) traffic fine, Ismailov turned to ChatGPT for legal assistance. After typing his situation into ChatGPT and mentioning that there was video evidence of his maneuver on the national traffic authority website, the AI tool advised him to challenge the ticket in a court of law and even redacted the paperwork needed to file his case.

Detailing his experience on X (Twitter), Kenzhebek Ismailov said that traffic authority personnel were initially very rude, rejecting his complaint outright and claiming that his decision to pay the fine was essentially an addition of guilt. However, as in many other countries, paying a fine in a certain period of time carries a 50% discount, so even if one plans to contest the fine in court, if they lose, they end up paying only half.

Things changed after Ismailov filed his case in court, and he was contacted by the traffic authority to settle the case by simply deleting the fine from their database and returning the money to him. However, ChatGPT advised him against dropping the lawsuit, so he went to court instead. During a 10-minute hearing where he was asked multiple questions by a judge, the 23-year-old used the speech synthesis function to have ChatGPT answer instead. It did so well that the judge had no choice but to cancel the fine.

“This is probably the first trial in Kazakhstan that was 99% conducted with the help of ChatGPT,” Ismailov said. “During the hearing, I turned on the speech synthesis, and it immediately prompted me how to respond.”

Now, the young motorist, who claims to have only challenged the traffic violation out of principle, because he knew he was right, now plans to use ChatGPT to file a civil lawsuit against the police, demanding compensation for the time he wasted contesting the fine.

 

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