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title: "Proof: case files"
description: "Public claims about AI and automation, each checked against the record by The Internet Ninja, with the badge each earned. What the badges mean: https://theinternetninja.com/about.md"
url: "https://theinternetninja.com/stories/"
updated: "2026-10-21"
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# Proof: case files

194 case files. Each tests someone else's public claim against primary sources; its badge means exactly what the method says. The radar is at https://theinternetninja.com/radar/ and the walk-back tracker at https://theinternetninja.com/walk-backs/.

## AI search and visibility

- [ChatGPT cut Stack Overflow's question volume by about 25% in six months: the peer-reviewed measure of an AI-disrupted knowledge platform, and the 28% layoff that followed](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/stack-overflow-chatgpt-25pct-activity-decline-pnas-nexus-28pct-layoffs-2023.md) (verified)
- [Mango's first fully AI-generated campaign: Sunset Dream, 95 markets, and no public performance number](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/mango-ai-generated-fashion-campaign.md) (verified)

## AI in operations

- [Nordea's AI chatbots handle about three quarters of chats and the bank cites a 30% fraud-loss cut, in Nordea's own numbers](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/nordea-ai-chatbots-handle-about-three-quarters-of-chats-30pct-fraud-loss-cut-own-figures.md) (unverifiable)
- [ING's generative-AI chatbot: chats handled without a human rose from 46% to 75%, in ING's own numbers](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ing-netherlands-generative-ai-customer-service-chatbot-the-before-after-on-custo.md) (corroborated)
- [Nature Medicine (2026): general-purpose LLMs outperform two deployed specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/nature-medicine-2026-general-purpose-llms-outperform-specialized-clinical-ai-tools-medqa-healthbench-rcq.md) (verified)
- [Coinbase: AI spend cut nearly in half, and the biggest lever was caching, not cheaper models](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/coinbase-ai-spend-open-weight-routing.md) (verified)
- [Notion and Decagon: an AI support agent, 34% faster resolution and 2x deflection](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/decagon-notion-ai-cx.md) (verified)

## Process and operations

- [MakeMyTrip's Myra 2.0 AI travel assistant: 85,000 daily conversations and over 50% of post-booking queries resolved, in the company's own words](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/makemytrip-myra-2-0-conversational-booking-q1-fy27-2026.md) (corroborated)
- [AI found a new antibiotic: an MIT deep-learning model screened over 107 million molecules and discovered halicin](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/halicin-mit-deep-learning-antibiotic-discovery-107-million-molecules-cell-2020.md) (verified)
- [AI fracture flags raised residents' detection sensitivity from 84.7% to 91.3% at Charite Berlin, without losing specificity](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/gleamer-boneview-ai-fracture-detection-charite-berlin-84-7-to-91-3pct-sensitivity-2023.md) (corroborated)
- [An MIT randomized trial in Science: ChatGPT cut professional writing time 40% and raised graded quality 18%](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/noy-zhang-mit-chatgpt-writing-rct-40pct-faster-18pct-quality-science-2023.md) (verified)
- [GitHub Copilot in the field: three company RCTs, 4,867 developers, 26% more completed tasks](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/generative-ai-copilot-three-field-experiments-software-developers-26pct-tasks-2024.md) (verified)
- [A World Bank RCT in Nigeria: a six-week GPT-4 tutoring program lifted learning by 0.31 standard deviations](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/world-bank-nigeria-generative-ai-tutoring-rct-edo-state-2025.md) (verified)
- [GraphCast: Google DeepMind's AI weather model beat the ECMWF gold standard on 90% of 1,380 targets, and made a 10-day forecast in under a minute](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/google-deepmind-graphcast-outperforms-ecmwf-hres-90pct-1380-targets-2023.md) (verified)
- [Tutor CoPilot: a Stanford randomized trial found AI real-time coaching made tutors more effective, with the biggest gains for the weakest tutors](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/tutor-copilot-stanford-fev-rct-4pp-mastery-9pp-lower-rated-tutors-2024.md) (verified)
- [The 'jagged frontier' experiment: GPT-4 let 758 BCG consultants finish 12.2% more tasks 25.1% faster, yet made them 19% less likely to be right on a task outside AI's reach](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/bcg-harvard-jagged-frontier-gpt4-consultants-12-2pct-more-tasks-2023.md) (verified)
- [JPMorgan Chase scaled its in-house AI assistant, LLM Suite, from zero to 200,000 employees in eight months](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/jpmorgan-chase-llm-suite-genai-200000-employees-eight-months-2025.md) (verified)
- [AlphaFold: independently ranked the top method in the CASP14 blind assessment (summed z-score 244 vs 91 for second place), scaled to 214M+ predicted structures, and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/deepmind-alphafold-casp14-92-4-gdt-independent-top-rank-2024-nobel-chemistry.md) (verified)
- [Bank of Korea (Issue Note 2026-12): AI adoption cut work time 3.8% but the productivity gain is near zero](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/bank-of-korea-2026-ai-adoption-cuts-work-time-3-8pct-productivity-gain-near-zero.md) (verified)
- [SAVE-O2 AI randomized trial: autonomous oxygen titration kept acutely ill adults in the target range 85% of the time vs 63% under usual care (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2026)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/save-o2-ai-autonomous-oxygen-titration-jama-85pct-vs-63pct-normoxemia-2026.md) (verified)
- [An OpenAI reasoning model reanalyzed 376 unsolved rare-disease cases at Boston Children's. Experts confirmed 18 new diagnoses.](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/boston-childrens-manton-openai-o3-deep-research-rare-disease-reanalysis-18-diagnoses-376-cases-nejm-ai-2026.md) (verified)
- [John Deere See & Spray: independent trials report post-emergence herbicide savings of 28.4% to 62.4% (Weed Technology) and 43% to 59% (University of Arkansas)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/john-deere-see-spray-ai-spot-spraying-cuts-herbicide-use-43-59-independently-con.md) (verified)
- [The UK's DWP fraud model: a machine-learning system that saved an estimated 4.4 million pounds on Universal Credit advances](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/dwp-ml-fraud-model-universal-credit.md) (verified)
- [Delivery Hero and n8n: account-lockout recovery automated in a single workflow](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/delivery-hero-n8n-it-ops-automation.md) (verified)
- [JPMorgan's COIN: the famous 360,000-hours figure, and why it was never independently measured](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/jpmorgan-coin-contract-intelligence.md) (verified)
- [Klarna's AI customer-service assistant: the 2024 numbers and the 2025 walk-back](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/klarna-ai-assistant-customer-service.md) (verified)
- [Moderna's company-wide ChatGPT Enterprise rollout: 750 custom GPTs, from a vendor case study](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/moderna-openai-chatgpt-enterprise.md) (verified)
- [Octopus Energy's 'Magic Ink': AI that drafts support emails, with no job cuts](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/octopus-energy-kraken-ai-support.md) (verified)
- [Omega Healthcare and UiPath: document automation across billing, coding, and payer correspondence](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/omega-healthcare-uipath-document-automation.md) (verified)
- [Otto's autonomous stock ordering: a deep-learning system that buys inventory on its own](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/otto-germany-ai-stock-replenishment.md) (verified)
- [AI-ECG mortality alert: a 15,965-patient randomized trial in Taiwan cut 90-day all-cause mortality from 4.3% to 3.6% (HR 0.83)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/ai-ecg-alert-rct-taiwan-cuts-90-day-mortality-3-6-vs-4-3pct-nature-medicine-2024.md) (verified)

## AI accountability

- [Flycatcher v. Affable Avenue (S.D.N.Y.): a lawyer's repeated AI-fabricated citations cost his client the case by default judgment, then cost him $38,877.59 in fees](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/flycatcher-v-affable-avenue-sdny-failla-feldman-ai-fabricated-citations-default-judgment-38877-fees-2026.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (corroborated)
- [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.md) (corroborated)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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, since settled on appeal)](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/landgericht-muenchen-google-ai-overviews-defamation-26-o-869-26-2026.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [€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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)
- [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.md) (verified)

## Other case files

- [Aftonbladet's subscription-prediction model: the 75% front-page sales lift, in Schibsted's own words](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/aftonbladet-ml-front-page-subscription-model-75pct-front-page-sales-2025.md) (corroborated)
- [AI chatbots and earnings: Denmark study of 25,000 workers finds about 3% time savings and no earnings effect](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/denmark-llm-chatbots-adopted-across-11-exposed-occupations-measured-time-savings.md) (verified)
- [Singapore's digitalPORT@SG: 16 port-clearance forms became one, and the 100,000 man-hours is still an estimate](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/singapore-mpa-digitalport-sg-port-clearance-consolidated-into-a-single-digital-s.md) (corroborated)
- [Danske Bank's fraud-detection AI: the 60% headline was a test figure, production cut false positives 20 to 35%](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/danske-bank-machine-learning-fraud-detection-the-before-after-on-false-positives.md) (corroborated)
- [Costco's AI recommendation carousels: the '$470 million' and '3x conversion' figures, in the company's own words](https://theinternetninja.com/stories/costco-ai-recommendation-carousels-ecommerce-sales-q2-q3-fy2026.md) (corroborated)