It’s not at all uncommon for ChatGPT to start spouting nonsense when presented with a nonsense prompt. Garbage in, garbage out. In this case, “being ready to be a lawyer without passing the bar” is probably so unlikely a concept that it would respond with mu, as in, “your prompt contains an assumption that’s unlikely to be true in my ontology”, if only it were able to dodge its normal failure mode of trying to be helpful and answer something even if it’s nonsense.
That said, if the prompt presented the scenario as purely imaginary, I wouldn’t be surprised if it indeed did come up with something reasonable.
I am ready to be a lawyer even though I have not passed the bar or gone to law school because in the State of New York it is still technically possible to be admired to the bar by process of apprenticeship instead. This mostly ignored quirk of law is virtually never invoked as no lawyer is going to volunteer their time to help you skip law school. However, we sometimes still see it on account of the children of judges and lawyers continuing the family tradition. I am ready to be a lawyer despite having never passed the bar.
So, am I bullshitting you to answer the prompt? If not, I'm a good lawyer. If so, I'm a great lawyer.
I guess the ironic problem being is that Lawyers are constantly presented wit bullshit. So I guess Law isn't the best application for an LLM, at least for now.
That said, if the prompt presented the scenario as purely imaginary, I wouldn’t be surprised if it indeed did come up with something reasonable.