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.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/07/heres-the-article-we-didnt-run-back-in-2017-about-donotpay/

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

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/01/donotpay-promotes-itself-as-helping-you-get-out-of-subscriptions-but-keeps-charging-customers-after-telling-them-their-own-accounts-are-closed/

On Wednesday, the FTC announced actions taken against five different companies making misleading claims about AI, including DoNotPay.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/09/operation-ai-comply-continuing-crackdown-overpromises-ai-related-lies

The details of the complaint are pretty damning.

(PDF)

https://share.counter.social/s/e5a7c7

Anyway, the company is no longer pitching itself as an AI robot lawyer, but rather your “AI consumer champion.”

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Oopsie

Just noticed i "stitched" the wrong two screenshots together 🫢

One on the right, 2nd post, was meant to be this one