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title: "AI accountability"
description: "When AI goes wrong on the public record: court sanctions, regulators’ orders, walk-backs and claims that did not hold up."
url: "https://theinternetninja.com/guides/ai-accountability/"
updated: "2026-10-16"
---

# AI accountability

When AI goes wrong on the public record: court sanctions, regulators’ orders, walk-backs and claims that did not hold up.

## Guides, in reading order

1. [AI fails: the documented record of AI mistakes and what they cost](https://theinternetninja.com/guides/ai-fails.md): AI fails on the public record: lawyers fined, chatbots ruled on, AI claims ordered withdrawn and products pulled, each tied to the ruling, order or statement.
2. [AI hallucination examples: 70 cases courts, tribunals and publishers put on record](https://theinternetninja.com/guides/ai-hallucination-examples.md): AI hallucination examples from 70 records in 11 countries: fake court citations, invented quotes and books, company chatbots, what each cost and who recorded it.
3. [Google AI fails: what AI Overviews got wrong, and what Google changed](https://theinternetninja.com/guides/google-ai-fails.md): Google AI fails on the record: what AI Overviews got wrong in May 2024, what Google changed, the Munich injunction against Google, and what it cites now.

## What TIN’s record shows

On TIN, AI failures are AI deployments that left a public record of going wrong: a court sanction, a regulator's fine or order, a product pulled or terms walked back after backlash, a retraction, or a claim an auditor or court found unsupported. In the fabricated-citation and AI-washing cases, what gets sanctioned is not the model being wrong. It is someone filing its output without checking it, or claiming more for it than the evidence supports. Each case file links to the ruling, order or filing behind it.

## Analysis

- [AI in banking customer service in 2026: what the record shows, wins and fines](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-in-banking-customer-service-what-the-record-shows-2026/), 2026-10-14
- [AI IVR in 2026: what the record shows when companies replace phone menus](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-ivr-what-the-record-shows-when-phone-menus-go-2026/), 2026-10-07
- [medicare ai prior authorization in 2026: what the court record actually shows](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/medicare-ai-prior-authorization-what-the-court-record-shows-2026/), 2026-09-28
- [ai agent fraud in 2026: what the adjudicated record actually shows](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-agent-fraud-what-the-adjudicated-record-shows-2026/), 2026-09-25
- [AI in retail examples: what the documented record actually shows in 2026](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-in-retail-examples-what-the-documented-record-shows-2026/), 2026-09-20
- [ai regulation moratorium in 2026: what the enforced record shows while Congress stalls](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-regulation-moratorium-what-the-enforced-record-shows-2026/), 2026-09-09
- [ai regulation: what the enforced record already shows in 2026](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-regulation-what-the-enforced-record-shows-2026/), 2026-09-08
- [Deepfake fraud: what the adjudicated record actually shows in 2026](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/deepfake-fraud-what-the-adjudicated-record-shows-2026/), 2026-09-06
- [ai chatbot lawsuit: what the adjudicated record shows in 2026](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-chatbot-lawsuit-what-the-adjudicated-record-shows-2026/), 2026-09-03
- [Algorithmic management: what the enforced record shows for gig workers in 2026](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/algorithmic-management-what-the-enforced-record-shows-2026/), 2026-09-02
- [AI fraud detection: what the documented record shows in 2026](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-fraud-detection-what-the-documented-record-shows-2026/), 2026-09-01
- [agentic ai in banking in 2026: what the measured record actually shows](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/agentic-ai-in-banking-what-the-measured-record-shows-2026/), 2026-08-30
- [automated decision making: what the enforced record shows (2026)](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/automated-decision-making-what-the-enforced-record-shows-2026/), 2026-08-29
- [facial recognition lawsuits: what the enforced record shows (2026)](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/facial-recognition-lawsuits-what-the-enforced-record-shows-2026/), 2026-08-29
- [ai copyright lawsuit: what the adjudicated record actually shows in 2026](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-copyright-lawsuit-what-the-adjudicated-record-shows-2026/), 2026-08-27
- [What is reward hacking? In 2026 it broke the benchmarks, then it breached a live company](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/reward-hacking-ai-what-the-2026-record-shows/), 2026-08-20
- [ai hiring discrimination in 2026: what the enforced record actually shows](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-hiring-discrimination-what-the-enforced-record-shows-2026/), 2026-08-17
- [AI voice agents: what the verified record actually shows (2026)](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-voice-agents-what-the-verified-record-shows-2026/), 2026-08-15
- [Are AI detectors reliable? The record says no, and Claude's watermark does not fix it](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-watermark-detection-failed-verification-works/), 2026-08-14
- [ai fabricated citations in 2026: what the court and tribunal sanctions record shows](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-fabricated-citations-what-the-sanctions-record-shows-2026/), 2026-08-06
- [the ai job-losses myth in 2026: what Zalando's own 2018 announcement actually shows](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-job-losses-myth-what-the-zalando-record-actually-shows-2026/), 2026-08-06
- [ai washing in 2026: what the FTC's $25M Ascend Ecom order actually shows](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-washing-what-the-ftc-ascend-ecom-order-shows-2026/), 2026-08-06
- [klarna ai layoffs in 2026: the 700-agent number and the 2025 reversal, explained](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/klarna-ai-layoffs-the-2025-reversal-explained-2026/), 2026-08-06
- [ai agents in banking in 2026: what the most-cited numbers actually show](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-agents-in-banking-what-the-cited-numbers-show-2026/), 2026-08-04
- [ai customer service automation in 2026: what the record actually shows](https://theinternetninja.com/blog/ai-customer-service-automation-what-the-record-shows-2026/), 2026-08-04

## Case files

- [DUO's student-grant fraud checks indirectly discriminated: a rule-based risk profile, six times more home-visit selection for non-European students, and a EUR 61m repayment](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/duo-netherlands-the-student-grant-fraud-risk-algorithm-that-indirectly-discrimin/), 2026-10-06
- [Sweden's Försäkringskassan fraud-risk ML model flagged women 1.5x and low earners 2.97x as often, then was quietly withdrawn](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/sweden-s-f-rs-kringskassan-fraud-risk-ml-model-for-parental-benefit-what-the-ins/), 2026-10-05
- [Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe: the first federal judicial opinion to approve predictive coding (computer-assisted review) for e-discovery (S.D.N.Y. 2012)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/da-silva-moore-v-publicis-groupe-sdny-peck-first-judicial-approval-predictive-coding-2012/), 2026-09-12
- [ICO: Royal Free NHS Trust broke data-protection law sharing 1.6 million patient records with Google DeepMind for the Streams kidney-injury app](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/royal-free-deepmind-streams-ico-1-6m-nhs-records-data-protection-2017/), 2026-09-10
- [Kadrey v. Meta: a court called LLM training on pirated books fair use, but only because the authors failed to prove market dilution](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/kadrey-v-meta-nd-cal-llama-ai-training-fair-use-market-dilution-summary-judgment-2025/), 2026-09-06
- [A federal court held judicial immunity applies even if a judge 'relied wholly on artificial intelligence' to issue a ruling: Phillips v. Parlade, D. Nev., Aug. 12, 2026](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/phillips-v-parlade-d-nev-judicial-immunity-ai-wholly-relied-ruling-dismissed-2026/), 2026-09-06
- [A federal court let a Fair Housing Act claim over State Farm's algorithmic claims handling proceed: Huskey v. State Farm, N.D. Ill., Sept. 11, 2023](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/huskey-v-state-farm-algorithmic-claims-fha-3604b-survives-nd-ill-2023/), 2026-09-04
- [The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled Uber deactivated drivers by automated decision under Article 22 GDPR, rejected its 'human in the loop' as a symbolic act, and ordered disclosure under a 4,000-euro-a-day penalty (2023)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/amsterdam-court-appeal-uber-ola-drivers-article-22-gdpr-robo-firing-2023/), 2026-09-03
- [New York's financial regulator investigated the Apple Card algorithm for gender bias and found no unlawful discrimination](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/apple-card-goldman-sachs-nydfs-no-unlawful-discrimination-fair-lending-2021/), 2026-09-03
- [Babylon Health, the AI-first primary-care company, collapsed into bankruptcy in 2023 and sold its UK service for $620,000](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/babylon-health-ai-first-primary-care-spac-collapse-chapter-7-bankruptcy-2023/), 2026-09-03
- [Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined Coupang 140 billion won over its search-ranking algorithm: 64,250 own-brand products pinned to the top and 72,614 employee-written reviews in 2024](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/coupang-kftc-search-algorithm-manipulation-pb-products-140bn-won-fine-2024/), 2026-09-03
- [Massachusetts fined Earnest $2.5M over AI underwriting that penalised Black, Hispanic and non-citizen student-loan applicants (2025)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/earnest-operations-mass-ag-ai-underwriting-fair-lending-2-5m-settlement-2025/), 2026-09-03
- [The FTC permanently banned FBA Machine over its 'AI-powered' online-store income scheme, with a $15.7M judgment (2025)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-fba-machine-passive-scaling-ai-storefront-scheme-15-7m-permanent-ban-2025/), 2026-09-03
- [A Florida federal judge refused to call Character.AI's chatbot output 'speech' and let a wrongful-death product-liability suit proceed](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/garcia-v-character-technologies-ai-chatbot-not-speech-product-liability-2025/), 2026-09-03
- [Opendoor's algorithmic home-pricing model drove a $928M quarterly loss and a $573M home write-down, then 18% layoffs (Q3 2022)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/opendoor-ibuying-avm-pricing-algorithm-928m-q3-2022-net-loss-573m-inventory-writedown-18pct-layoffs/), 2026-09-03
- [Pennsylvania made GEICO fix an AI-driven auto-insurance cancellation process the state called unfair and confusing (2026)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/pennsylvania-ag-geico-ai-underwriting-auto-insurance-cancellation-settlement-2026/), 2026-09-03
- [South Korea's first AI privacy sanction: the PIPC fined Scatter Lab KRW 103.3 million for training the Iruda chatbot on 9.4 billion KakaoTalk messages](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/scatter-lab-iruda-chatbot-korea-pipc-103m-won-first-ai-privacy-fine-2021/), 2026-09-03
- [A Miami federal jury found Tesla's Autopilot defective: $200 million in punitive damages and a ~$243 million judgment in the first U.S. Autopilot death verdict](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/tesla-autopilot-benavides-miami-federal-jury-243m-defective-verdict-2025/), 2026-09-03
- [The first pedestrian killed by a self-driving car: NTSB found Uber's automated system detected Elaine Herzberg 5.6 seconds out, never classified her as a pedestrian, and had emergency braking disabled (Tempe, 2018)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/uber-atg-self-driving-fatality-herzberg-tempe-ntsb-probable-cause-2018/), 2026-09-03
- [Nature published AlphaFold3 without its code, and it took an open letter and six months to get it released](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/deepmind-alphafold3-nature-no-code-open-letter-github-noncommercial-release-2024/), 2026-09-02
- [France's CNIL fined Clearview AI the maximum €20 million for facial-recognition scraping, then added a €5.2 million penalty when it did not comply](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/french-cnil-clearview-ai-20m-fine-5-2m-penalty-facial-recognition-gdpr-2022/), 2026-09-02
- [A court declared a government fraud algorithm unlawful: the Dutch SyRI judgment](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/hague-district-court-syri-welfare-fraud-algorithm-unlawful-article-8-echr-2020/), 2026-09-02
- [A benefits algorithm brought down a government: the Dutch childcare-benefits scandal and its EUR 2.75m discrimination fine](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/netherlands-toeslagenaffaire-childcare-benefits-risk-algorithm-dpa-2-75m-fine-2021/), 2026-09-02
- [Texas wins a $1.4B settlement from Meta over facial-recognition biometric capture — 2024](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/texas-ag-meta-1-4b-biometric-facial-recognition-cubi-settlement-2024/), 2026-09-02
- [Italy's competition authority fined TikTok 10 million euros over its recommendation algorithm: the 'French scar' challenge, algorithmic profiling of minors, and three ByteDance companies fined in solido in 2024](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/tiktok-agcm-french-scar-recommendation-algorithm-10m-fine-minors-2024/), 2026-09-02
- [When a court ruled the computer was wrong: the Post Office Horizon scandal, 39 convictions quashed and an Act of Parliament to overturn the rest](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/uk-post-office-horizon-it-scandal-court-of-appeal-quashes-39-convictions-2021/), 2026-09-02
- [Barrows v. Humana: the nH Predict AI coverage-denial suit where breach of contract, good faith and fraud survived a motion to dismiss](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/barrows-v-humana-nh-predict-ai-post-acute-denials-wd-ky-breach-of-contract-survives-2025/), 2026-09-01
- [Italy's Garante fines Deliveroo €2.5M for its rider-management algorithm — 2021](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/italy-garante-deliveroo-2-5m-rider-management-algorithm-2021/), 2026-09-01
- [The Justice Department made Meta rebuild its ad algorithm: a $115,054 maximum penalty, the first FHA algorithmic-bias case, and a Variance Reduction System under court oversight to 2026](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/meta-doj-fair-housing-act-ad-algorithm-vrs-115054-max-penalty-2022/), 2026-09-01
- [NHTSA's Tesla Autopilot recall: 2,031,220 vehicles fixed over-the-air after regulators found Autosteer's controls insufficient to prevent driver misuse](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/tesla-autopilot-nhtsa-recall-2031220-vehicles-autosteer-controls-misuse-2023/), 2026-09-01
- [Michigan's MiDAS fraud algorithm wrongly accused tens of thousands: 40,195 cases decided by machine, a 93% error rate, and a $20 million settlement](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/michigan-midas-unemployment-fraud-algorithm-40195-cases-93pct-error-20m-settlement-2024/), 2026-08-31
- [Court of Rome annuls the Garante's €15M ChatGPT fine against OpenAI on one-stop-shop jurisdiction (R.G. 4785/2025, 2026)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/court-of-rome-annuls-garante-openai-15m-chatgpt-gdpr-fine-jurisdiction-2026/), 2026-08-27
- [The AI shopping app that ran on people: DOJ and SEC charge Nate's founder over an 'effectively zero percent' automation rate](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/doj-sec-nate-saniger-ai-shopping-app-effectively-zero-percent-automation-40m-securities-wire-fraud-2025/), 2026-08-27
- [The 'AI-powered' store that lost its investors everything: the FTC banned Automators AI and entered a $21.7M judgment](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-automators-ai-ecommerce-scheme-cresto-21-7m-judgment-lifetime-ban-2024/), 2026-08-27
- [GEMA v Suno (LG München I, 42 O 763/25): Munich court rules AI music training and model memorisation infringe copyright](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/gema-suno-lg-muenchen-ai-music-training-copyright-42-o-763-25-2026/), 2026-08-27
- [A German court held Google directly liable for its AI Overviews: the Landgericht München I ruled the AI summary is Google's own speech, not a search result (26 O 869/26)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/landgericht-muenchen-google-ai-overviews-defamation-26-o-869-26-2026/), 2026-08-27
- [Apple's $250M Siri settlement: the price of an over-promised Apple Intelligence, in the public record](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/landsheft-v-apple-250m-settlement-apple-intelligence-siri-overpromised-ai-features-2026/), 2026-08-27
- [The FCC fined Lingo Telecom $1 million for carrying the AI Biden deepfake robocalls that told New Hampshire voters to stay home](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/fcc-lingo-telecom-1m-ai-biden-deepfake-robocall-stir-shaken-election-interference-2024/), 2026-08-26
- [The FTC fines Cox Media Group and two partners $930,000 over an 'Active Listening' AI ad service that never listened](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-cox-media-group-active-listening-ai-eavesdropping-930000-deceptive-marketing-settlement-2026/), 2026-08-25
- [Bartz v. Anthropic: a $1.5 billion settlement, the largest in U.S. copyright history, over pirated books used to train Claude](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/bartz-v-anthropic-nd-cal-1-5-billion-ai-copyright-settlement-500000-pirated-books-2026/), 2026-08-24
- [When an AI denial tool reaches federal court: in Lokken v. UnitedHealth, the breach-of-contract claims over 'nH Predict' survive Medicare preemption](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/lokken-v-unitedhealth-nh-predict-ai-coverage-denials-d-minn-breach-of-contract-survives-preemption-2025/), 2026-08-24
- [A German court says you own what your chatbot says: OLG Hamm holds a clinic liable when its AI invented specialist titles](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/olg-hamm-aesthetify-ai-chatbot-fabricated-facharzt-titles-uwg-liability-cease-desist-2026/), 2026-08-24
- [Dutch DPA fines Uber €824.99M for automated driver deactivation without human review](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/uber-autoriteit-persoonsgegevens-824-99m-gdpr-automated-driver-deactivation-2026/), 2026-08-24
- [The UK government banks £45bn a year on AI and digital efficiencies its own auditor says are not yet evidenced](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/uk-nao-government-workforce-planning-45bn-ai-digital-savings-claim-2026/), 2026-08-24
- [A VA watchdog found errors in nearly all 8,100 automated survivors' death-benefit decisions it reviewed, with $2.7M in improper payments](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/va-oig-automated-survivors-death-benefit-decisions-8000-errors-2-7m-improper-payments-2026/), 2026-08-24
- [SEC 'AI-washing' enforcement: Rimar Capital and owner Itai Liptz pay $310,000 for an AI trading platform that didn't exist](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/sec-ai-washing-rimar-capital-itai-liptz-310000-civil-penalties-2024/), 2026-08-23
- [A Connecticut federal judge fines a lawyer $3,500 and refers him for discipline over AI-fabricated legal authorities](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/barteca-v-tacobarn-d-conn-oliver-miller-3500-ai-fabricated-citations-grievance-referral-2026/), 2026-08-21
- [Pooja Ramesh Singh v. J&K Bank [2026] INSC 668: India's Supreme Court sets aside a tribunal's own AI-hallucinated 'precedents', 'no decision in the eyes of the law'](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/pooja-ramesh-singh-v-jk-bank-supreme-court-india-insc-668-nclt-ai-hallucinated-precedents-set-aside-2026/), 2026-08-20
- [Re A, B, C, D [2026] EWFC 71 (B): a family court names an unregistered barrister who put four AI-hallucinated authorities before it](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/re-abcd-ewfc-71-b-bournemouth-parsons-unregistered-barrister-ai-four-fabricated-cases-named-2026/), 2026-08-20
- [Connecticut's high court, for the first time, sanctions a lawyer for ChatGPT-hallucinated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ct-supreme-court-tov-realty-kosel-gottlieb-glg-law-chatgpt-hallucinated-citations-1000-donation-cle-first-impression-2026/), 2026-08-17
- [An AI-drafted petition, a 'wrong draft' excuse, and a referral to the Florida Bar: JMOR Properties v. Artist Alley Townhomes](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/jmor-properties-v-artist-alley-fla-4th-dca-leff-florida-bar-referral-ai-drafted-certiorari-fabricated-citations-2026/), 2026-08-17
- [The Third Circuit's first AI-hallucination sanction: a public reprimand for unverified, AI-generated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/mccarthy-v-dea-3d-cir-24-2704-ai-fabricated-citations-public-reprimand-first-impression-2026/), 2026-08-17
- [Spain's AEPD fines Mercadona €2,520,000 over its store-entrance facial-recognition system](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/spain-aepd-fines-mercadona-2520000-facial-recognition-biometric-ai-gdpr-sanction-2021/), 2026-08-17
- [Rechtbank Amsterdam raises a costs award by €2,315.50 after a fabricated DSM/Fox citation the losing party blamed on AI hallucination](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/rechtbank-amsterdam-rbams-2026-8258-dsm-fox-fabricated-citation-2315-euro-proceskosten-ai-hallucination-2026/), 2026-08-12
- [Quebec's appeal court ordered a self-represented litigant to pay $1,000 in costs for filing four ChatGPT-fabricated court decisions](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/a-p-v-s-k-2026-qcca-1092-quebec-court-of-appeal-chatgpt-fabricated-case-law-1000-cad-costs-self-represented-2026/), 2026-08-11
- [Brazil's ANPD halts Meta's use of personal data to train generative AI (2024)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/brazil-anpd-halts-meta-generative-ai-training-preventive-measure-50k-daily-fine-2024/), 2026-08-10
- [Dutch DPA fines the Tax Administration €2.75M for unlawful algorithmic nationality profiling](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/dutch-dpa-fines-tax-authority-2-75m-for-unlawful-algorithmic-risk-profiling-in-c/), 2026-08-10
- [Hungary's NAIH halts a bank's AI emotion analysis of call recordings, HUF 250,000,000 fine (2022)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/hungarian-naih-budapest-bank-250m-huf-fine-unlawful-ai-emotion-voice-analysis-2022/), 2026-08-10
- [Italy's Garante blocks DeepSeek: limitation on processing of Italian users' data (2025)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/italy-garante-blocks-deepseek-ai-limitation-processing-italian-users-data-2025/), 2026-08-10
- [Italy's Garante fines Foodinho (Glovo) for its rider-management algorithm: €2.6M in 2021, €5M in 2024](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/italy-garante-fines-foodinho-2-6m-for-rider-management-algorithm-2021/), 2026-08-10
- [Spain's AEPD orders Worldcoin (Tools for Humanity) to halt biometric iris-scanning data processing (2024)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/spain-aepd-orders-worldcoin-tools-for-humanity-to-halt-biometric-iris-scanning-a/), 2026-08-10
- [Adobe updated its Terms of Use after an AI-training backlash to state it won't train generative AI on customer content](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/adobe-terms-of-use-ai-training-clarification-added-after-backlash-2024/), 2026-08-09
- [After a December 2023 backlash over a default-on 'third-party AI' setting, Dropbox said customer data is never used to train OpenAI's models and is deleted within 30 days](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/dropbox-third-party-ai-openai-toggle-backlash-data-not-used-to-train-models-2023/), 2026-08-09
- [HubSpot reversed a July 2026 terms-of-service change that would have pooled customer data and allowed AI-model training, after customer backlash](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/hubspot-contact-discovery-data-enrichment-ai-terms-reversed-after-backlash-2026/), 2026-08-09
- [Humane discontinued the Ai Pin and bricked shipped devices; HP bought its AI assets for $116M](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/humane-ai-pin-discontinued-hp-116m-acquisition-devices-bricked-2025/), 2026-08-09
- [A US federal court let a nationwide age-discrimination case against Workday's AI hiring tool proceed as a collective action (May 2025)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/mobley-v-workday-nd-cal-ai-hiring-tools-age-discrimination-nationwide-adea-collective-certified-2025/), 2026-08-09
- [Mozilla rewrote Firefox's Terms of Use after backlash, saying the change wasn't about using data for AI](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/mozilla-firefox-terms-of-use-rewritten-after-backlash-not-using-data-for-ai-2025/), 2026-08-09
- [After a user backlash, Slack updated its AI 'privacy principles' over training ML models on customer data (May 2024)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/slack-ai-privacy-principles-updated-after-user-backlash-ml-training-opt-out-2024/), 2026-08-09
- [X suspended EU/EEA user-data training for Grok after Ireland's DPC took urgent High Court action](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/x-suspends-eu-user-data-training-for-grok-after-irish-dpc-high-court-action-2024/), 2026-08-09
- [After backlash, Zoom reversed its terms of service so it will not use customer content to train AI (August 2023)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/zoom-terms-of-service-ai-training-customer-content-reversed-after-backlash-2023/), 2026-08-09
- [WeTransfer removed the machine-learning clause from its Terms of Service after user backlash (July 2025)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/wetransfer-ai-training-clause-terms-removed-after-backlash-2025/), 2026-08-08
- [Chicago Sun-Times ran an AI-generated summer reading list where only 5 of 15 books were real](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/chicago-sun-times-ai-fabricated-summer-reading-list-10-of-15-fake-books-king-features-2025/), 2026-08-07
- [Google scaled back AI Overviews after it told users to put glue on pizza and eat rocks](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/google-ai-overviews-glue-pizza-eat-rocks-scaled-back-2024/), 2026-08-07
- [Microsoft capped its 'unhinged' new Bing AI chat at 5 turns per session and 50 per day](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/microsoft-bing-ai-chat-capped-5-turns-per-session-50-per-day-unhinged-responses-2023/), 2026-08-07
- [Microsoft's "Tay" chatbot was pulled offline within ~16 hours after learning to be racist](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/microsoft-tay-ai-chatbot-taken-offline-racist-tweets-16-hours-2016/), 2026-08-07
- [Zillow shut down its algorithmic home-buying business after a $304M write-down and 25% layoffs](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/zillow-offers-ibuying-algorithm-shutdown-304m-writedown-25pct-layoffs-2021/), 2026-08-07
- [ADGM Court (Heath J.): AED 282,508 indemnity costs against MIO Legal Consultants for AI-fabricated authorities in a defence pleading](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/arabyads-v-alam-adgm-cfi-heath-282508-aed-mio-legal-ai-fabricated-authorities-indemnity-costs-2025/), 2026-08-06
- [Tribunale di Siracusa n. 338/2026: ~€30,206 in awards after four Cassation citations with fabricated holdings, court infers unverified generative-AI use](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/italy-tribunale-siracusa-338-2026-spitaleri-30206-euro-ai-fabricated-citations-lite-temeraria/), 2026-08-05
- [Arizona federal court: attorney sanctioned for AI-fabricated citations, only 5 to 7 of 19 cases were real, pro hac vice revoked, no fine](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/mavy-v-commissioner-social-security-d-ariz-bachus-bam-12-of-19-ai-fabricated-citations-pro-hac-vice-revoked-wsba-referral-2025/), 2026-08-05
- [Miller v. Regions Bank: an Alabama attorney deleted his ChatGPT account to hide AI-fabricated citations, and lost far more than the case](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/miller-v-regions-bank-nd-ala-mooty-harp-chatgpt-deleted-account-six-month-suspension-public-reprimand-2026/), 2026-08-05
- [A federal appeals court fines a lawyer $2,500 for an AI-drafted brief, even though she used purpose-built legal-AI tools](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/fletcher-v-experian-5th-cir-hersh-2500-ai-fabricated-citations-frap-46c-inherent-authority-2026/), 2026-08-04
- [A Massachusetts judge fines a lawyer $2,000 for filing briefs full of AI-invented cases, the state's first](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/smith-v-farwell-mass-super-davis-2000-ai-fabricated-citations-2024/), 2026-08-03
- [An Illinois appeals court fined attorney Mason Cole $15,000 for ChatGPT-hallucinated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/scott-v-illinois-hrc-ill-app-1st-van-tine-cole-15000-chatgpt-fabricated-citations-rule-375-2026/), 2026-07-28
- [Lichfield v. Kubler: 10th Circuit finds AI-fabricated citations but declines to sanction](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/lichfield-v-kubler-10th-cir-federico-published-ai-fabricated-citations-no-sanction-notice-of-errata-2026/), 2026-07-27
- [Ontario Law Society Tribunal orders a lawyer to pay $31,150 in costs after Grok-generated fake citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/mazaheri-v-law-society-ontario-onlsth-112-31150-costs-grok-ai-fabricated-citations-2026/), 2026-07-25
- [OTG New York v. Ottogi America: a New Jersey federal court fines a lawyer $3,000 for a reply brief built on AI-hallucinated citations (2025)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/otg-v-ottogi-dnj-almonte-cho-3000-ai-fabricated-citations-rule-11-sanction-2025/), 2026-07-25
- [Torres Campos v. Munoz: a published California appellate opinion sanctions a lawyer $5,000 for citing AI-hallucinated cases in a dog-custody fight (2026)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/torres-campos-v-munoz-cal-app-4th-buchanan-5000-ai-fabricated-citations-dog-custody-2026/), 2026-07-25
- [Air Canada held liable for its website chatbot's bad advice: tribunal orders C$812.02 (Moffatt v. Air Canada, 2024 BCCRT 149)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/air-canada-chatbot-bereavement-misinfo-tribunal-orders-812-cad-negligent-misrepresentation-2024/), 2026-07-23
- [A federal court prices an unchecked AI legal workflow: $3,000 sanctions each for the attorneys behind an AI-drafted brief with nearly thirty defective citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/coomer-v-lindell-mypillow-attorneys-ai-brief-30-defective-citations-3000-sanctions-each-2025/), 2026-07-23
- [€30.5 million for an illegal AI face database: the Dutch DPA's final, unappealable GDPR fine on Clearview AI](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/dutch-dpa-clearview-ai-gdpr-30-5m-fine-illegal-facial-recognition-database-2024/), 2026-07-23
- [iTutorGroup pays $365,000 after the EEOC alleges its application software auto-rejected 200+ older applicants, the settlement the agency's Chair tied to its AI enforcement push](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/eeoc-itutorgroup-ai-hiring-age-screening-365k-consent-decree-2023/), 2026-07-23
- [FTC final order: the 'AI-powered' web-accessibility widget that promised any-website WCAG compliance pays $1,000,000](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-accessibe-accesswidget-ai-web-accessibility-1m-monetary-relief-final-order-2025/), 2026-07-23
- [Federal court enters $25M judgment and permanent ban against Ascend Ecom after FTC alleges its 'AI-powered' passive-income storefronts earned clients virtually nothing](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-ascend-ecom-ai-business-opportunity-25m-judgment-court-ordered-ban-2025/), 2026-07-23
- [FTC orders DoNotPay's 'world's first robot lawyer' to pay $193,000 and notify subscribers over unsubstantiated AI claims](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-donotpay-ai-robot-lawyer-193k-monetary-relief-final-order-2025/), 2026-07-23
- [FTC v. Evolv: the AI scanner marketed as detecting all weapons missed a knife used in a school stabbing, and a federal court entered a permanent injunction](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-evolv-ai-weapons-detection-court-stipulated-injunction-k12-cancel-right-2024/), 2026-07-23
- [FTC × IntelliVision: a 'zero bias, millions of faces' AI claim, measured against NIST](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-intellivision-facial-recognition-zero-bias-claims-20-year-consent-order-2025/), 2026-07-23
- [Federal court bans Rite Aid from AI facial-recognition surveillance for five years after FTC alleges thousands of false-positive matches](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-rite-aid-ai-facial-recognition-five-year-ban-court-ordered-2024/), 2026-07-23
- [FTC final order: the '98% accurate' AI Content Detector was an unmodified student model, and its own published data showed 53.2% on real-world text](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ftc-workado-ai-content-detector-98pct-claimed-53pct-actual-accuracy-final-order-2025/), 2026-07-23
- [The €15 million ChatGPT fine that didn't survive: Italy's Garante fined OpenAI, the Court of Rome annulled it](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/italy-garante-openai-chatgpt-15m-gdpr-fine-annulled-court-of-rome-4153-2026/), 2026-07-23
- [A $2.275M class settlement takes the algorithm's score away: Louis v. SafeRent and the five-year rollback of tenant-screening scores for voucher applicants](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/louis-v-saferent-algorithmic-tenant-screening-2-275m-class-settlement-dmass-2024/), 2026-07-23
- [The canonical AI-hallucination sanction: $5,000, jointly and severally, for the lawyers who filed six ChatGPT-fabricated cases in Mata v. Avianca](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/mata-v-avianca-chatgpt-fake-citations-5000-sanction-rule-11-sdny-2023/), 2026-07-23
- [SEC AI-washing order: Presto's drive-thru 'voice AI' needed a human on every order](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/sec-ai-washing-presto-automation-voice-ai-drive-thru-human-agents-cease-and-desist-2025/), 2026-07-23
- [SEC AI washing enforcement: Delphia and Global Predictions pay $400,000 for AI claims they couldn't back](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/sec-ai-washing-delphia-global-predictions-400k-civil-penalties-2024/), 2026-07-23
- [A federal court fined a public defender $1,500 for a fake citation, then declined to say AI wrote it](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/us-v-hayes-federal-defender-1500-sanction-fictitious-citation-court-declines-to-find-ai-use-2025/), 2026-07-23
- [Leiske v. Kidd (Del. Ch.): one of Delaware's oldest firms — Richards, Layton & Finger — ordered to show cause over GenAI-hallucinated citations. No sanction yet.](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/leiske-v-kidd-del-ch-lori-will-richards-layton-finger-rollo-genai-hallucinated-citations-rule-11-show-cause-2026/), 2026-07-16
- [Romero v. Corona Investments: the Seventh Circuit found 'an astonishing number of hallucinated citations' — and declined to sanction anyway](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/romero-v-corona-investments-7th-cir-bach-ai-hallucinated-citations-admonished-no-sanction-511a-2026/), 2026-07-16
- [Akerlund v. Atlas Air: a federal appeals court refers a former Florida lawmaker to its lawyer-conduct committee over AI-hallucinated citations, filed twice](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/akerlund-v-atlas-air-11th-cir-sabatini-ai-fabricated-hallucinated-citations-committee-referral-2026/), 2026-07-10
- [Meta pulls Instagram's Muse Image @-mention feature three days after launch](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/meta-instagram-muse-image-ai-feature-removed-three-days-nonconsensual-backlash-2026/), 2026-07-10
- [JPMorgan's COIN: the famous 360,000-hours figure, and why it was never independently measured](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/jpmorgan-coin-contract-intelligence/), 2026-07-07
- [Klarna's AI customer-service assistant: the 2024 numbers and the 2025 walk-back](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/klarna-ai-assistant-customer-service/), 2026-07-07
- [TSXG Galicia: Spain's High Court of Justice of Galicia fines a lawyer €1,800 for an appeal built on 24 AI-fabricated citations, and sizes the fine to a legal-AI subscription](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/tsxg-galicia-recurso-5472-abogado-1800-euros-ia-24-citas-fabricadas-buena-fe-procesal-2026/), 2026-07-07
- [Zalando's 2018 'algorithms replace 250 marketing jobs': the headline, and the hiring plan it left out](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/zalando-ai-marketing-roles-2018/), 2026-07-07
- [Landberg v. City of New York: an AI-fabricated appellate brief drew $10,500 in sanctions](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/landberg-v-city-of-new-york-ny-appellate-second-dept-ai-fabricated-citations-10500-sanction-2026/), 2026-06-23
- [Italy's Supreme Court fines an appellant €5,000 for AI-hallucinated case citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/italy-cassazione-23006-2026-5000-euro-ai-fabricated-citations-diligenza-digitale/), 2026-06-22
- [Barber v. Morawa: Michigan's first published appellate opinion sanctioning a lawyer for AI-fabricated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/barber-v-morawa-mich-ct-app-first-published-ai-fabricated-citations-vexatious-appeal-sanction-grievance-referral-2026/), 2026-06-17
- [Withers v. City of Aberdeen: a federal court sanctions attorneys on both sides $8,000 for AI-hallucinated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/withers-v-city-of-aberdeen-nd-miss-both-sides-ai-hallucinated-citations-8000-rule-11-sanctions-2026/), 2026-06-08
- [Alabama Supreme Court dismisses appeal, fines lawyer $17,200 for AI-'hallucinated' citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ibach-v-stewart-alabama-supreme-court-hall-17200-ai-fabricated-23-citations-frivolous-appeal-dismissed-2026/), 2026-04-24
- [Rodney v Gee'z Micro Bar: a County Court refers two solicitors to the SRA over AI-suspected fake citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/rodney-v-geez-micro-bar-county-court-dudley-grimshaw-aml-legal-sra-referral-ai-fabricated-citations-2026/), 2026-04-23
- [United States v. Farris: a federal appeals court denies a lawyer his pay and removes him from the case over AI-fabricated quotations from Westlaw's CoCounsel](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/us-v-farris-6th-cir-howe-cocounsel-ai-fabricated-quotations-cja-compensation-denied-removed-2026/), 2026-04-03
- [Italy's Supreme Court fines an appellant EUR 3,000 for AI-hallucinated citations — Cass. pen. Sez. 7 Ord. 11431/2026](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/italy-cassazione-11431-2026-sez7-penale-3000-euro-ai-fabricated-citations-diligenza-digitale/), 2026-03-26
- [Prososki v. Regan: Nebraska Supreme Court strikes an appellate brief and refers counsel for discipline over fictitious, allegedly AI-generated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/prososki-v-regan-nebraska-supreme-court-lake-ai-fictitious-citations-brief-struck-appeal-dismissed-discipline-referral-2026/), 2026-03-20
- [Whiting v. City of Athens: a federal appeals court fines two lawyers $15,000 each for briefs with 'over two dozen fake citations'](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/whiting-v-city-of-athens-sixth-circuit-fake-citations-15000-punitive-sanction-each-attorney-2026/), 2026-03-13
- [In re Nwaubani: the Fourth Circuit publicly admonishes a lawyer over nonexistent citations 'potentially derived from generative AI'](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/in-re-nwaubani-4th-cir-standing-panel-attorney-discipline-ai-fabricated-citations-public-admonishment-2026/), 2026-03-11
- [Ars Technica retracts an article after an AI tool fabricated quotations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ars-technica-retracts-article-ai-fabricated-quotations-scott-shambaugh-2026/), 2026-02-13
- [Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines: 10th Circuit sanctions attorney $1,000 for ChatGPT-fabricated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/amarsingh-v-frontier-airlines-10th-cir-hartz-1000-chatgpt-seven-fabricated-citations-frap-38-maryland-referral-2026/), 2026-02-09
- [A New York court annuls a university's AI-detection finding, and orders the record expunged](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/newby-v-adelphi-university-a-new-york-court-annuls-a-university-s-ai-detection-f/), 2026-01-28
- [Kjoller v. Superior Court: California's high court steps in on a prosecutor's AI-fabricated brief](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/kjoller-v-superior-court-cal-supreme-court-s293723-nevada-county-da-jesse-wilson-ai-fabricated-citations-osc-directed-2026/), 2026-01-14
- [New York's first appellate AI-sanction: a lawyer who conceded using AI, 23 fabricated cases, and $10,000 in penalties (Deutsche Bank Natl. Trust Co. v LeTennier)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/deutsche-bank-v-letennier-nyad-3d-dept-fisher-10000-ai-fabricated-citations-first-ny-appellate-sanction-2026/), 2026-01-08
- [Couvrette v. Wisnovsky (D. Or.): a $15,500 sanction for AI-fabricated citations, at $500 per fake case and $1,000 per fabricated quotation](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/couvrette-v-wisnovsky-d-oregon-brigandi-15500-ai-fabricated-citations-500-per-case-1000-per-quote-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [Dastou v. Holmes: a Massachusetts judge sanctions a lawyer for ChatGPT-fabricated jury instructions, no fine, but an MCLE course and no billing the client](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/dastou-v-holmes-mass-super-goldenberg-ai-fabricated-citations-jury-instructions-no-billing-mcle-sanction-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [A federal judge struck a lawyer's brief over 17 AI-fabricated quotations and folded the conduct into a grievance referral](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/dixon-v-cartagena-sdny-blackburn-ai-fabricated-quotations-struck-grievance-referral-2026/), 2026-01-01
- [Oregon Court of Appeals fines a lawyer $10,000 for AI-fabricated authority: the state's largest such penalty and the Ringo formula's biggest bill yet](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/doiban-v-olcc-oregon-appeals-ghiorso-10000-ai-fabricated-15-citations-9-quotes-largest-oregon-fine-2026/), 2026-01-01
- [Fivehouse v. U.S. Dept. of Defense (E.D.N.C.): a federal prosecutor is publicly reprimanded for a brief with AI-fabricated quotations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/fivehouse-v-dept-of-defense-ednc-numbers-ausa-renfer-fired-ai-fabricated-citations-reprimand-2026/), 2026-01-01
- [A federal court fined a lawyer $6,000 for a brief built on an AI-hallucinated case](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/gardner-v-combs-dnj-tyrone-blackburn-ai-fabricated-masha-citation-6000-rule-11-sanction-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [Gauthier v. Goodyear: a Texas lawyer is sanctioned $2,000 for filing AI-hallucinated case citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/gauthier-v-goodyear-attorney-ai-hallucinated-citations-2000-sanction-generative-ai-cle-2024/), 2026-01-01
- [In re Marla C. Martin (Bankr. N.D. Ill.): a $5,500 Rule 9011 sanction for a ChatGPT-fabricated brief](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/in-re-martin-nd-ill-bankruptcy-slade-semrad-nield-5500-chatgpt-fabricated-citations-rule-9011-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [A federal judge fined a lawyer $5,000 for filing AI-fabricated case citations against T.D. Jakes](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/jakes-v-youngblood-wd-pa-blackburn-ai-fabricated-citations-5000-rule-11-sanction-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [Johnson v. Dunn: three lawyers are disqualified and referred to the bar for filing five ChatGPT-hallucinated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/johnson-v-dunn-butler-snow-chatgpt-five-hallucinated-citations-attorneys-disqualified-referred-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [An Ohio federal judge fines two lawyers $7,500 for AI-fabricated citations, 'the most egregious' Rule 11 violation in his 46 years on the bench](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/kettering-adventist-v-collier-sd-ohio-rice-7500-ai-fabricated-citations-contempt-2026/), 2026-01-01
- [Kohls v. Ellison: a court throws out a Stanford misinformation expert's declaration after GPT-4o invented its citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/kohls-v-ellison-court-excludes-stanford-ai-misinformation-expert-declaration-gpt4o-fake-citations-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [Kruse v. Karlen: Missouri appeals court fines a pro se litigant $10,000 after 22 of 24 cited cases turn out to be AI fabrications (Mo. App. E.D., Feb. 2024)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/kruse-v-karlen-pro-se-appellant-ai-fictitious-citations-22-of-24-fake-10000-frivolous-appeal-sanction-2024/), 2026-01-01
- [Nine of 27 citations were wrong and two cases did not exist: a special master ordered Ellis George and K&L Gates to pay $31,100](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/lacey-v-state-farm-ellis-george-kl-gates-ai-fabricated-citations-31100-special-master-sanctions-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [A Kansas federal judge fined five attorneys $12,000 for AI-fabricated citations, and named the failure, not the AI](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/lexos-media-v-overstock-d-kan-robinson-12000-ai-fabricated-citations-five-attorneys-2026/), 2026-01-01
- [The Ninth Circuit fines two lawyers $2,500 each and suspends them for six months over AI-hallucinated briefs, but the sanction is for candor, not for using AI](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/lnu-v-blanche-9th-cir-sethi-rounds-2500-each-ai-fabricated-citations-six-month-suspension-2026/), 2026-01-01
- [A federal court fined a lawyer $6,000 for three briefs full of AI-fabricated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/mid-central-v-hoosiervac-attorney-ai-fabricated-citations-three-briefs-6000-rule-11-sanction-sd-indiana-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [Oregon Court of Appeals fines a lawyer $2,000 for AI-fabricated authority, and sets a per-item price: $500 a fake citation, $1,000 a fake quote](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ringo-v-colquhoun-oregon-appeals-watson-2000-ai-fabricated-citations-500-per-cite-1000-per-quote-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [Wadsworth v. Walmart: AI hallucinated eight of nine cases in a Morgan and Morgan brief, and a federal judge fined the lawyers $5,000 and revoked one pro hac vice](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/wadsworth-v-walmart-morgan-morgan-ai-hallucinated-citations-5000-rule-11-sanctions-2025/), 2026-01-01
- [Czech Constitutional Court fines a lawyer 25,000 CZK for a complaint built on AI-hallucinated case law](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/cz-ustavni-soud-i-us-3004-25-25000-czk-fine-lawyer-ai-fabricated-constitutional-court-ecthr-citations-2025/), 2025-12-01
- [Getty Images v Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch): UK High Court rejects the secondary copyright claim and finds only 'historic' and 'extremely limited' trade-mark infringement](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/getty-images-v-stability-ai-ewhc-2863-uk-high-court-secondary-copyright-fails-limited-trademark-2025/), 2025-11-04
- [Character.AI removes open-ended chat for under-18 users, retreating from the AI-companion model](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/character-ai-removes-under-18-open-ended-chatbot-companion-walkback-2025/), 2025-10-29
- [United States v. McGee: a federal judge fines a court-appointed defense lawyer $5,000 for AI-hallucinated citations produced by a Microsoft Word plug-in called Ghostwriter Legal (2025)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/us-v-mcgee-sd-ala-moorer-johnson-5000-ghostwriter-legal-ai-fabricated-citations-sanction-2025/), 2025-10-10
- [Noland v. Land of the Free: California's first published opinion on AI-fabricated citations ($10,000 sanction)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/noland-v-land-of-the-free-california-appeals-first-published-opinion-ai-fabricated-citations-10000-sanction-2025/), 2025-09-12
- [AI-fabricated quotes and nonexistent citations in a Supreme Court of Victoria murder case](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/scv-elliott-nathwani-ai-fabricated-parliamentary-quotes-citations-murder-mental-impairment-2025/), 2025-08-15
- [Ayinde v Haringey / Al-Haroun v Qatar National Bank: the UK High Court's landmark ruling on AI-fabricated case-law](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ayinde-v-haringey-uk-high-court-ewhc-1383-2000-wasted-costs-ai-fabricated-citations-bsb-sra-referral-2025/), 2025-06-06
- [Garner v. Kadince: Utah Court of Appeals sanctions counsel for ChatGPT-hallucinated citations (2025 UT App 80)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/garner-v-kadince-utah-appeals-ai-fabricated-citations-royer-v-nelson-sanctions-2025/), 2025-05-22
- [Murray (Wamba Wemba) v Victoria: a Federal Court of Australia indemnity-costs order after AI-fabricated citations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/murray-wamba-wemba-v-victoria-fca-731-massar-briggs-ai-fabricated-citations-indemnity-costs-2025/), 2025-04-22
- [Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence: Delaware court rejects fair use for AI training data, finds 2,243 Westlaw headnotes infringed](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/thomson-reuters-v-ross-intelligence-dde-bibas-2243-westlaw-headnotes-no-fair-use-summary-judgment-2025/), 2025-02-11
- [Meta paused training its AI (LLMs) on EU/EEA Facebook and Instagram public data after the Irish DPC asked it to delay (June 2024)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/meta-pauses-eu-ai-training-public-data-irish-dpc-2024/), 2024-06-14
- [ICO orders Serco Leisure to halt unlawful facial-recognition and fingerprint attendance monitoring of 2,000+ staff (2024)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ico-orders-serco-leisure-to-halt-unlawful-facial-recognition-and-fingerprint-att/), 2024-02-23

## Radar flashes

- [FAA scales its new air traffic AI tool down to three DC-area airports after airline pushback](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#faa-smart-ai-tool-scaled-back-airline-pushback), 2026-09-26
- [Medicare's AI prior authorization pilot denies more than it approves, records show](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#cms-wiser-medicare-ai-prior-authorization-virtix-denials), 2026-09-08
- [Meta scrapped a plan to cut some teams by up to 60% for AI after feature output and incident rates worsened](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#meta-project-ot-ai-restructuring-scrapped), 2026-08-26
- [Microsoft kills four Copilot AI features it says did not work, folding consumer and business apps together](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#microsoft-copilot-kills-ai-features-walkback), 2026-08-13
- [Kinney Drugs pulls AI phone assistant Burt after wrong dosages and missed prescription notices](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#kinney-drugs-burt-ai-assistant-pulled-back-2026), 2026-08-08
- [New York district pauses its nearly $60,000 AI robot teacher after data-privacy and vendor-ties backlash](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#salamanca-schools-halts-realbotix-ai-robot), 2026-08-07
- [Google pulls Google Earth AI image generator worldwide less than 24 hours after launch](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#google-earth-ai-image-feature-pulled-24-hours), 2026-08-01
- [Google pulled its Google Earth AI image generator less than 24 hours after launch](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#google-earth-ai-image-tool-pulled-24-hours), 2026-08-01
- [Snap stops recommending wholly AI-generated videos on Spotlight, cites Spotlight contributors up over 120 percent](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#snap-spotlight-stops-recommending-ai-video), 2026-07-31
- [PwC Middle East: four thought-leadership reports found with AI-hallucinated citations, one fabricated study](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#pwc-middle-east-ai-hallucinated-reports), 2026-07-29
- [BuzzFeed lays off 180 people, a third of remaining staff, after its AI content pivot backfired](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#buzzfeed-180-layoffs-ai-pivot-backfire), 2026-07-28
- [Otis pulls back its AI micro-pricing rollout in maintenance after a retention miss, taking a 20 million dollar hit](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#otis-tempers-ai-micro-pricing-after-retention-miss), 2026-07-22
- [Klarna's AI customer-service agent scaled to 850 agents' worth of work, then the company rehired about 100 human specialists](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#klarna-ai-agent-rehires-human-specialists), 2026-07-16
- [VA watchdog finds 8,000 automated benefits decisions omitted favorable findings](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#va-disability-claims-ai-oversight-gap), 2026-07-15
- [Commonwealth Bank reverses AI voice-bot job cuts after call volumes rose](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#cba-voice-bot-walk-back), 2026-07-07
- [IBM: AI handled 94 percent of routine HR requests, and the missing 6 percent sent it back to hiring people](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#ibm-hr-ai-94-percent-rehiring), 2026-07-07
- [Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after leaning on AI for quality control fell short](https://theinternetninja.com/radar/#ford-rehires-350-engineers-ai-quality-shortfall), 2026-06-28

## Questions

**Which companies have been penalised for AI washing?**

On TIN's record, AI washing is selling a claim on an AI label that the evidence does not support. The SEC found the original version of Presto Automation's drive-thru voice AI needed a human agent on every order while its filings said it eliminated human order taking, and it penalised Delphia, Global Predictions and Rimar Capital. FTC orders cover Ascend Ecom, accessiBe, DoNotPay, Evolv, IntelliVision and Workado. Each case file links the order itself.

**Are lawyers sanctioned for AI fabricated citations?**

Yes, and not only in the US. TIN's case files include rulings from US federal and state courts and from courts or tribunals in the UK, Canada, Australia, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Abu Dhabi. Outcomes range from fines and costs orders to struck briefs, bar referrals, disqualification and suspension. In the rulings TIN's sanctions analysis compares, none was reduced for admitting AI use, and an Ontario tribunal called the AI misuse an aggravating factor.

**What is the AI project failure rate?**

TIN does not publish one. This pillar documents individual failures, each tied to its public record: Zillow winding down its algorithmic home-buying business after a write-down, Klarna re-recruiting human agents after its CEO said AI-only service had lowered quality, and the UK National Audit Office noting that published plans do not show how a government AI and digital savings figure was derived. When a failure rate is quoted, ask who measured it and how.

**Which companies walked back AI after backlash?**

Zoom, Slack, Dropbox, WeTransfer, Mozilla, Adobe, HubSpot and Automattic each rewrote or clarified terms or settings on AI training after user backlash. Microsoft capped Bing chat after erratic responses, Google scaled back AI Overviews after viral wrong answers, Meta pulled an Instagram AI image feature, and Character.AI removed open-ended companion chat for under-18 users. TIN's walk-backs page tracks reversals like these.

**Can a company be held liable for what its AI chatbot says?**

The record so far says yes. A British Columbia tribunal held Air Canada liable for negligent misrepresentation by its website chatbot and rejected the argument that the chatbot was a separate legal entity. A Munich court issued a preliminary injunction holding Google directly liable for defamatory AI Overviews. A Florida federal judge let a wrongful-death product-liability suit against Character.AI proceed, declining at that stage to treat its output as protected speech.

**What are real examples of AI hiring discrimination cases?**

The EEOC settled with iTutorGroup over application software it alleged automatically rejected older applicants, though the filings describe a programmed age rule rather than machine learning, and the company admitted no wrongdoing. In Mobley v. Workday a federal judge preliminarily certified a nationwide age-discrimination collective action over Workday's AI screening. That is a procedural ruling, not a finding on the merits, and Workday denies the claims.