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I mean in this specific case, it did, at your behest even. These contracts would probably be even easier to enforce than Claude-signed ones!

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I disagree, in the same way that I'd disagree if you said the rollerball pen on my desk signed a contract.

They can be used by someone to sign a contract, but they cannot sign a contract themselves because they're just tools.

Your pen cannot sign a contract can purely because it doesn't have the capability to find a contract in your email, find a signature on your HD, and place that sig in the right place on that contract. If it did, then yes it would be capable of signing a contract just like Claude did in this case.

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