Chat GPTに頼るべからず Never Rely on ChatGPT.

 Chat GPTに頼るべからず

確定申告書を作成して、印刷したら両面印刷になっていた。印刷設定を変えていないのに。「おかしい。今年から紙の節約で国税庁は両面刷りに変えたのか」と思い、Chat GPTに尋ねたら、なんと「最近は確定申告書は両面刷りです。第一票と第二票が揃っておれば問題ないです」と応えた。「じゃあ」と安心して、両面刷りの確定申告書を税務署に提出した。

翌日、別の文書を印刷したら両面刷りであった。「これはおかしい」と、税務署に電話したら「片面印刷で出して欲しい。……もう提出したのですか？　なら、それでいいです」と言われた。

これが確定申告で良かった。もっと重大なことなら大惨事だ。

Never rely on ChatGPT.

I prepared my tax return and printed it out, only to find it had come out double‑sided. I hadn’t changed any print settings.
“That’s strange. Maybe the National Tax Agency switched to double‑sided printing this year to save paper,” I thought. So I asked ChatGPT, and it confidently replied, “Yes, tax returns are printed double‑sided nowadays. As long as Form 1 and Form 2 are both included, there’s no problem.”

Reassured, I submitted my double‑sided tax return to the tax office.

The next day, I printed a completely different document—and it also came out double‑sided.
“Now this is odd,” I thought, and called the tax office. They told me, “Please submit it single‑sided. …You already turned it in? Well, then it’s fine as is.”

Thank goodness this was only a tax return. If it had been something more serious, it could’ve been a disaster.