{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-28T05:51:07.649Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"abusive-appeal-fine","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":1},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-rennes-administrative-court-fines-student-750-euros-for-abusive-urgent-appeal-citing-generative-ai-markers","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Par une requête, enregistrée le 18 octobre 2026'; 'de suspendre l’exécution de la décision du 3 juin 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A student represented by a lawyer asked the Rennes urgent-applications judge on 18 October 2026 to suspend a university's 3 June 2026 refusal of her admission to a psychology master's programme.","causal_attribution":"Established by the order."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'aucune des deux conditions cumulatives posées par l’article L. 521-1 du code de justice administrative n’étant remplie'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The judge rejected the request, finding that neither urgency nor serious doubt about the refusal's legality was shown.","causal_attribution":"Established by the order."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'mêle des apostrophes courbes et droites et comporte de nombreux tirets cadratins ainsi que des puces en ronds noirs'; 'Or de tels éléments sont caractéristiques des textes générés par un outil d’intelligence artificielle générative tel que Claude.ai.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The order says the request mixed curly and straight apostrophes, used many em dashes and black round bullets, and had an ordered, pedagogical but repetitive argument, elements it called characteristic of text generated with a generative-AI tool such as Claude.ai.","causal_attribution":"The order documents the judge's inference; whether AI was used is not established."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ces éléments révèlent un travail de production de recours stéréotypés, en masse'; 'Dans ces circonstances, la présente requête présente un caractère abusif.'; 'est condamnée à payer une amende pour recours abusif de 750 euros.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The judge held the request abusive in these circumstances, which also included its failure to meet either condition, the claimant's lack of the required level and references to other people suggesting stereotyped bulk appeals, and fined her 750 euros.","causal_attribution":"The order establishes the fine and its stated reasons; the AI markers are one of several circumstances."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ces indices restent discutables, car un simple copier-coller depuis un traitement de texte peut laisser les mêmes traces.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Clubic, reporting the order, noted that a simple copy and paste from a word processor can leave the same traces.","causal_attribution":"The outlet's own comment."}],"effects":[{"label":"750-euro fine for an abusive appeal whose stated circumstances include suspected generative-AI drafting","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://opendata.justice-administrative.fr/recherche/api/elastic/decisions/ORTA_2608002_20261022.xml/bm9TZWNvbmR2YWx1ZQ==","kind":"court_record","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-10-28; translation and paraphrase by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"ta-rennes-ordonnance-2608002"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.clubic.com/actualite-636250-un-juge-croit-reconnaitre-un-texte-redige-avec-claude-dans-un-recours-une-etudiante-condamnee.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-10-28; translation and paraphrase by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"clubic-2026-10-27"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["unknown"],"contexts":["justice","education"],"unknowns":["Whether a generative-AI tool was used to draft the request, which one, and by whom (the claimant was represented by a lawyer).","Whether the claimant will contest the fine.","Whether the companion request n° 2608003, rejected the same day without a fine, came from the same claimant."],"geography":{"basis":"The fine was imposed by the Rennes administrative tribunal on a request concerning a French university's admission decision; the claimant's residence is not stated.","court_countries":["FR"],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a consequential-response case: a court order documents a 750-euro fine on a student whose request it held abusive in circumstances that include features the judge called characteristic of generative-AI text. The AI use itself is recorded as suspected and unestablished.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-28"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Consequential response: the harm is a court's sanction that responds in part to suspected AI use. The order lists the request's mixed apostrophes, em dashes, black round bullets and ordered but repetitive argument as characteristic of text generated with a generative-AI tool such as Claude.ai, and holds the request abusive in those and other circumstances before fixing a 750-euro fine. No relation describes an AI system's own output toward the claimant: the order does not establish that AI was used, which tool, or who drafted the request.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Rennes court fines student 750 euros for abusive urgent appeal over master refusal, citing typography it called characteristic of generative AI","summary":"On 22 October 2026 the urgent-applications judge of the Rennes administrative tribunal rejected a student's request, filed through a lawyer on 18 October, to suspend a university's June 2026 refusal to admit her to a psychology master's programme, finding neither urgency nor serious doubt about the refusal's legality. The judge also fined her 750 euros for an abusive request. The order gives as reasons that the request met neither condition, concerned a programme for which she manifestly lacked the level, and referred to other people's names in ways the judge read as stereotyped mass-produced appeals; it adds that the request mixed curly and straight apostrophes, used many em dashes and black round bullets, and had an ordered but repetitive argument, elements the judge called characteristic of text generated by a generative-AI tool such as Claude.ai. The order does not establish who drafted the request or whether AI was used; Clubic noted that a copy and paste from a word processor can leave the same traces.","incidentDate":"2026-10-22","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-27","aiSystem":"A generative-AI writing tool suspected by the judge from the typography and structure of the request; Claude.ai is named only as an example of such a tool","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI writing tool (suspected)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A court order documents a 750-euro fine for an abusive appeal, whose stated circumstances include typography and structure the judge called characteristic of generative-AI text (court record; the AI use itself is not established).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the claimant ordered to pay the 750-euro fine (Article 2 of the order). Exact 1. Who drafted the request is not established, so she is not counted as an AI user.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"FR","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://opendata.justice-administrative.fr/recherche/api/elastic/decisions/ORTA_2608002_20261022.xml/bm9TZWNvbmR2YWx1ZQ==","primarySourceLabel":"Tribunal administratif de Rennes, ordonnance n° 2608002, 22 October 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-28T03:14:09.510986+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:14:09.510986+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["court-sanction","administrative-court","abusive-appeal-fine","suspected-ai-drafting","consequential-response","france"]}]}