Total monetary sanctions for AI-hallucinated filings
As of October 30, 2026, courts in the AI Vortex corpus have recorded USD 1,667,570 in monetary sanctions across 209 matters involving AI-hallucinated filings. Only amounts stated in US dollars are counted.
Method and formula
sum(amount) over records where currency == "USD" and amount is a number > 0; amounts in other or unstated currencies are counted but never summed; no exchange-rate conversion.
total = sum(amount) over records where currency == "USD" and amount is a number > 0
$ node scripts/usd-total.mjs
USD 1667570.23 across 209 matters (corpus cut 2026-10-30, 2238 records)The script reads the same public dataset the site is built from. The build fails if this page and the script disagree. The figure changes whenever the corpus is refreshed; the cut date above is the date it was last checked against the source.
Questions this page answers
- How much have courts ordered in monetary sanctions for AI-hallucinated filings?
- USD 1,667,570 across 209 matters, as of October 30, 2026 (corpus cut 2026-10-30; most recent decision dated 2026-10-23). The figure only includes amounts stated in US dollars.
- How is the total calculated?
- sum(amount) over records where currency == "USD" and amount is a number > 0; amounts in other or unstated currencies are counted but never summed; no exchange-rate conversion. It can be reproduced from data/cases.json with: node scripts/usd-total.mjs.
- Why is the total limited to US dollars?
- Amounts in other currencies are not converted, because any exchange rate would be an assumption we cannot source for each decision date. A record that states no currency is never assumed to be dollars.
- How many jurisdictions does the corpus cover?
- 43 jurisdictions (distinct countries after merging aliases (GB/UK, US/USA), plus Hong Kong and Northern Cyprus). The USD total comes from 1 of them; no per-country breakdown or range is given here.
Source and limits
Records come from Damien Charlotin, AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC BY 4.0), normalized by AI Vortex. This page publishes an aggregate, not the underlying rows. A recorded amount is what a decision or the source states; it is not proof the amount was paid. Verify against the linked decision before relying on a figure for a single case.