See Part 1 here , Part 2 here and Part 3 here.
With the draft and form temporarily off my hands and with Gill to set up, this left me with a bit of free time.
Which is when I wrote parts 1 – 3 of this blog series.
However, Part 2 was somewhat delayed, when, to my irritation, ChatGPT suddenly decided it was not happy with the Key Information section.
Amending the Key Information
Despite having previously described it as “a very strong, near-final document”, ChatGPT now decided, when I queried something, that the Key Information section needed amendment, as it did not include all the required information as set out in the regulations for a statement of terms.
Local Authority Officers, it declared, might argue that tenants should not have to hunt through the agreement to find stuff. The statutory terms should be immediately accessible and complete.
I felt quite annoyed about this. “Why didn’t you say this before?” was my initial reaction. Plus, the few references to other parts of the Agreement in the Key Information are all fairly specific and give section numbers.
But there is no point in arguing with a machine, and I could see where it was coming from. So we did another review of the Key Information.
This took some time, so Part 2 had to wait until the afternoon.
Chat GPT and the doomscroll
However, unless something major is highlighted, I am not going to change this again.
Even though it has now said:
You now have a very high-quality, modern, RRA-compliant tenancy agreement
Given half a chance, it will want to amend things again.
One of the things about ChatGPT is that it is never satisfied. Even if you show it a clause that it has previously approved, it will usually have a further amendment.
Then, at the end of its comments, it always suggests something else you could do. If you’re not careful, this could go on forever.
It’s the equivalent of the ‘doomscrolling’ on social media.
First sight of the new agreement
Gill, bless her, had set up the tenancy agreement in the document generator, so it is now possible to create a document and take a look at it.
Initial impressions are favourable.
Although Landlords won’t like the fact that it is over 30 pages long. Unfortunately, though, there is not much that can be done about this. If you are going to produce a legally compliant document in plain English, this will inevitably need a lot of space.
Sadly, the days of tenancy agreements taking up just two sides of an A4 piece of paper are long gone. Any landlord trying to do this will either produce a document that can only be read with a powerful microscope (in itself probably a breach of the Unfair Terms rules in the Consumer Rights Act) or a document which is illegal.
I’m going to have to go over this with Gill, and there are a number of things to discuss with her. Plus, I will have to deal with the further amendments ChatGPT insisted on. But we are getting there.
Maybe we could even get it finished tomorrow?
See the final post here. Or find links to all posts in my Overview of the series.
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