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ChatGPT DisasterThe AI failure record

Hallucination sanctions database

16 reports in scope

Reports with no retrievable source are excluded from this database and from its counts.

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0825He Hid Instructions For The AI In White Text.The Judge Found All Five.1,431
0823One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty Four Cases.Six Fines Over Fifty Thousand.2,057
0818Seven Cases That Do Not Exist.State Farm's Lawyer Says He Never Knew.1,718
0815A German Court Just Made Your Chatbot's LiesYour Problem1,254
0810An Army AI Tool Graded A $449 Million Contract.The Loser Says It Made Things Up.1,116
0728Google's Search AI Invented A Scandal About Two Publishers.A German Court Ruled Google Owns Every Word Of It.1,294
0624A Mississippi Judge Sanctioned Lawyers OnBoth SidesOf One Case For Citing AI-HallucinatedCase Law.1,602
0614New York BannedAI Companion ChatbotsFor Kids.And Put APriceOn Breaking The Rule.1,963
0604The Ninth Circuit Just Drew The Line: It Is Not The AI Hallucination, It Is The Cover-Up1,012
0525AI Hallucinations Are Getting Lawyers Sanctioned and Fined for Fake Court Citations1,405
0428Even Joe Exotic's Lawyer Couldn't Avoid AI Hallucinations: A Federal Brief Got Cited for Fake Cases1,880
0422The 2026 Attorney AI Hallucination Crisis, Explained1,684
0410ABillion-Dollar CEOAsked ChatGPT How to Steal$250 MillionFrom His Own Studio. A Delaware Judge Said No.3,003
0404ChatGPT Fabricated Legal Cases Got Lawyers Sanctioned2,307
0330Fake AI Citations in Dog Custody Case, Lawyers Sanctioned1,814
0315OpenAI Cannot Stop Stumbling: Pentagon Deals, A Mass Shooting Failure, and the AI Actress Debacle Define a Brutal 20261,720