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DoNotPay has to pay $193k settlement over ‘world’s first robot lawyer’ — The company never tested the accuracy of its AI lawyer with a real human lawyer, according to the FTC

The company never tested the accuracy of its AI lawyer with a real human lawyer, according to the FTC.

The FTC complaint, which is available to read online, is filled with some rather odd details, including a quote that appeared on the DoNotPay website that purported to be from the Los Angeles Times: “What this robot lawyer can do is astonishingly similar—if not more—to what human lawyers do.” In reality, the quote was from the Los Angeles Times High School Insider website, a user-generated content platform for high school students, according to the FTC. Gizmodo asked about the allegations that it didn’t hire a lawyer to check the work of its AI attorney, but those questions weren’t addressed by the company in its statement. And FTC chair Lina Khan, a figure who’s adored by progressive Democrats and despised by many large businesses for her recent enforcement actions, says using AI doesn’t provide any kind of exemption to existing laws.

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