https://theytrustedai.io/Documented cases where people trusted AI output with real-world authority and paid for the missing verification step.Hugoen-usFri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theytrustedai.io/incidents/the-briefs-full-of-cases-that-never-existed/Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theytrustedai.io/incidents/the-briefs-full-of-cases-that-never-existed/An appellate lawyer filed one set of hallucinated citations, then tried to withdraw a different set that the court said was hallucinated too.https://theytrustedai.io/incidents/nine-seconds-to-delete-production/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theytrustedai.io/incidents/nine-seconds-to-delete-production/A coding agent found a broad cloud token, deleted PocketOS's production volume, and turned a nine-second action into a sixty-hour recovery.https://theytrustedai.io/incidents/he-asked-for-a-salt-alternative-and-got-bromide/Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://theytrustedai.io/incidents/he-asked-for-a-salt-alternative-and-got-bromide/A patient reported replacing table salt with sodium bromide after consulting ChatGPT, then spent three weeks in the hospital with bromide toxicity.