98% of People Failed This Test

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Nobody reads contracts — and it's not because we're lazy. Documents have outgrown human memory. AI can hold entire contracts in context and surface the risks you'd miss. One prompt, included below, does 90% of the work.

They didn't even notice it was in the contract.

That's not a hypothetical. Security.org ran the experiment. They buried a clause in a consent form offering "naming rights to your firstborn child." Nearly everyone signed it. Even the people who claimed they "always read agreements thoroughly"? 100% of them agreed too.

Think you're more careful than that?

An Adobe survey found that 69% of people have signed contracts without knowing all the details. Two-thirds of them later discovered unexpected terms they'd missed.

15% described what they found as "horrifying."

And the consequences aren't just theoretical embarrassment.

Noom — the diet app — just paid $62 million to settle a lawsuit. Users signed up for "free trials," got trapped in auto-renewals they couldn't escape, and were instantly back-charged for months of service. The cancellation instructions were in the contract.

Nobody read it.

Here's what most people get wrong: this isn't about laziness or rushing.

It's about cognitive load.

Modern documents — contracts, policies, benefit plans, vendor agreements — have crossed a threshold. They're longer, denser, and more interconnected than human working memory can reliably handle.

When you're reading a 40-page agreement:

Reading carefully doesn't fail because people rush. It fails because documents stopped being human-scaled.

This is one of the clearest practical use cases for AI right now.

Not as a shortcut. Not as an advisor. As a translator between dense language and human judgment.

AI can:

You're not asking AI to decide for you. You're asking it to show you where your judgment actually matters.

Upload or paste. That's it.

📎 Upload the file — Best for PDFs, contracts, policies, financial statements.

📋 Paste the text — Best for clauses, excerpts, or sections you're unsure about.

Don't clean it up. Don't summarize first. Raw input is better. Let the ambiguity stay visible.

For long, complex documents (50+ pages), Claude currently handles extended context better than most alternatives — it can hold around 150,000 tokens at once, meaning it won't "forget" page 3 by the time it reaches page 40.

ChatGPT works too — for shorter documents, both perform well. For high-stakes contracts, test both and compare what they surface.

Take the next document that makes you uneasy — a renewal, a vendor contract, an insurance policy.

Upload it. Run the prompt once.

If nothing surfaces, sign with confidence.

If something does, slow down deliberately.

That's what clarity under pressure actually looks like.