DoNotPay Has To Pay, After FTC Dings It For Lying About Its Non-Existent AI Lawyer

DoNotPay Has To Pay, After FTC Dings It For Lying About Its Non-Existent AI Lawyer

Remember “DoNotPay”? They were the company, run by Joshua Browder, claiming to be the “world’s first robot lawyer.” There were all sorts of sketchy things going on, some of which dated back to “DoNotPay’s” earliest days. But things really came to a head last year when legal investigator extraordinaire, Kathryn Tewson, started digging in and finding an awful lot of questionable things going on. In May of last year, we noted that the FTC had put o…

DoNotPay Has To Pay $193K For Falsely Touting Untested AI Lawyer, FTC Says

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Among the first AI companies that the Federal Trade Commission has exposed as deceiving consumers is DoNotPay -- which initially was advertised as "the world's first robot lawyer" with the ability to "sue anyone with the click of a button." On Wednesday, the FTC announced that it took action to stop DoNotPay from making bogus claims after learning that the AI startup conducted no testing "to…