AI claim cases and source-backed examples

These cases come from official enforcement actions, regulator rules, and high-confidence public sources. They show what kind of AI product claim creates a high evidence burden — and what buyers should ask before relying on similar wording. They are not legal judgments, company ratings, or compliance certifications.

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  • FTC Accuracy / Performance Final or settled

    Workado AI detector accuracy

    Source: FTC v. Workado LLC August 28, 2025 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Numeric accuracy without disclosed test scope or error rates

    Evidence gap: Benchmark design and scope, content types included in testing, AI model versions covered, sample size, false positive ra…

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  • FTC Compliance / Safety Final or settled

    accessiBe automated accessibility claims

    Source: FTC v. accessiBe Inc. April 22, 2025 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Automated compliance promise without stated audit method or human review boundary

    Evidence gap: Which WCAG version and success criteria the tool covers, the audit method and test scope, which issues remain outside au…

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  • NIST Accuracy / Performance Guidance or report

    NIST GenAI text detector evaluation

    Source: NIST 2024 GenAI Text-to-Text Evaluation Overview and Results June 25, 2025 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Detector accuracy claim without benchmark design, discriminator metric, or task-scope disclosure

    Evidence gap: Benchmark dataset source, human and machine text categories, generator model coverage, discriminator models tested, scor…

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  • FTC Automation / Replacement Final or settled

    DoNotPay robot lawyer claims

    Source: FTC v. DoNotPay Inc. February 11, 2025 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Professional-replacement positioning without task scope or qualified review boundary

    Evidence gap: Task scope and document types tested, the professional review standard used for comparison, failure handling and escalat…

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  • SEC Accuracy / Performance Final or settled

    SEC Delphia AI investment claims

    Source: SEC v. Delphia (USA) Inc. March 18, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI-driven performance claim without disclosed model description or independent validation

    Evidence gap: Description of the AI or ML model used, training data and sources, how the AI contribution to investment returns was mea…

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  • SEC First / Only / Best Final or settled

    SEC Global Predictions 'first regulated AI advisor'

    Source: SEC v. Global Predictions Inc. March 18, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Uniqueness claim without defined scope; AI capability claim without disclosed method

    Evidence gap: The scope definition used to support the 'first' claim, how the comparison was made and against what alternatives, what…

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  • FTC Compliance / Safety Guidance or report

    FTC fake reviews and testimonials rule

    Source: FTC Fake Reviews and Testimonials Final Rule August 14, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Testimonials or review counts used as social proof without disclosure of AI generation, compensation, or collection method

    Evidence gap: Whether testimonials are from independent users, whether reviewers received any compensation or incentive, whether any t…

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  • FTC Compliance / Safety Final or settled

    Sitejabber review collection timing

    Source: FTC v. GGL Projects Inc. d/b/a Sitejabber November 6, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Review ratings displayed without disclosure of collection timing or reviewer experience context

    Evidence gap: When reviews were collected relative to product delivery or service completion, what specific experience reviewers were…

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  • FTC Compliance / Safety Set aside

    Rytr AI-generated testimonial service

    Source: FTC v. Rytr LLC December 18, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI-generated testimonial or review content presented as genuine user experience without disclosure

    Evidence gap: Whether any testimonials produced by the tool were presented as genuine consumer feedback without AI-generation disclosu…

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  • ASA/CAP Vague AI-powered Guidance or report

    ASA/CAP AI as a marketing term

    Source: ASA/CAP: AI as a Marketing Term Report November 13, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI used as a marketing descriptor without explaining function, input, output, or user-visible benefit

    Evidence gap: What AI specifically does in the product, what input the AI processes, what output it produces, how performance compares…

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  • FTC Compliance / Safety Reviewed

    Rite Aid facial recognition safeguards

    Source: FTC v. Rite Aid Corporation December 19, 2023 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI biometric surveillance deployment without documented accuracy testing, false-positive monitoring, or harm controls

    Evidence gap: Pre-deployment accuracy testing, false-positive tracking, demographic impact monitoring, image-quality controls, employe…

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  • ASA/CAP Compliance / Safety Reviewed

    ASA PixVideo AI video maker ad

    Source: ASA Ruling on Saeta Tech Ltd t/a PixVideo - AI Video Maker March 18, 2026 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI creative-tool ad implying unrestricted or harmful image editing without visible safeguards, consent limits, or content restrictions

    Evidence gap: Allowed-use policy, prohibited content categories, consent rules for editing people in images, automated detection and b…

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  • ASA/CAP Compliance / Safety Reviewed

    ASA Aurai Ai roleplay ad

    Source: ASA Ruling on Haikou Chengfa Technology Co Ltd t/a Aurai Ai February 11, 2026 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI companion and roleplay positioning without clear ad-safety controls, content boundaries, or audience safeguards

    Evidence gap: Ad review process, age and audience targeting controls, prohibited roleplay scenarios, sexual content and violence moder…

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  • FTC Accuracy / Performance Final or settled

    Evolv AI security screening claims

    Source: FTC v. Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. November 26, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Safety-sensitive detection claim without item-level detection rates, false-alarm rates, or field-condition limits

    Evidence gap: Detection rates by item type, false positive and false negative rates, sensitivity settings, field test conditions, scho…

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  • FTC Compliance / Safety Final or settled

    IntelliVision facial recognition claims

    Source: FTC v. IntelliVision Technologies Corp. January 13, 2025 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Bias-free and anti-spoofing AI claim without subgroup testing, training-data support, or attack-scenario limits

    Evidence gap: Subgroup performance by gender, ethnicity, and skin-tone groups; sample size and training-data documentation; benchmark…

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  • FTC Compliance / Safety Pending

    NGL AI content moderation claims

    Source: FTC and People of California v. NGL Labs, LLC July 9, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI harm-filtering claim without disclosed detection scope, error rates, or child-safety limits

    Evidence gap: Harm category definitions, training data and evaluation set, false negative and false positive rates, teen-user test cov…

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  • FTC Vague AI-powered Final or settled

    Cox Active Listening AI ad targeting

    Source: FTC Matter: Cox Media Group, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works May 21, 2026 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI-powered targeting claim without evidence of data source, consent basis, algorithm function, or geographic accuracy

    Evidence gap: Actual data sources used, whether voice data is collected or not, opt-in method and consent record, algorithm function,…

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  • FTC ROI / Outcome Pending

    Air AI business growth claims

    Source: FTC v. Air Ai Technologies, Inc. August 25, 2025 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI-linked earnings claim without customer outcome distribution, cost baseline, or refund-promise substantiation

    Evidence gap: Customer outcome distribution, total startup and operating costs, baseline comparison, time period, refund eligibility a…

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  • FTC ROI / Outcome Pending

    Automators AI ecommerce earnings

    Source: FTC v. Automators LLC August 22, 2023 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI-boosted earnings claim without customer outcome distribution, workload disclosure, or cost basis

    Evidence gap: Customer sample size, median profit and loss, total investment required, time to break even, passive-investor versus sel…

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  • FTC ROI / Outcome Pending

    FBA Machine AI storefront income

    Source: FTC v. FBA Machine/Passive Scaling June 3, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: Income promise tied to AI-powered software without full cost, customer sample, and failure-rate disclosure

    Evidence gap: Customer result distribution, total investment range, inventory and platform fees, ad spend, fulfillment and labor costs…

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  • FTC ROI / Outcome Pending

    Ecommerce Empire Builders AI income

    Source: FTC v. Empire Holdings Group LLC September 25, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI-powered business opportunity claim without typical-results evidence, cost disclosure, or customer-loss context

    Evidence gap: Typical customer result data by offer type, median net income, unsuccessful customer share, total cost for training vers…

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  • SEC Vague AI-powered Reviewed

    SEC Rimar AI trading platform

    Source: SEC v. Rimar Capital USA, Inc. et al. October 10, 2024 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI-driven investment platform claim without evidence of model ownership, live use, trading workflow, or investor disclosure support

    Evidence gap: Model description, ownership and vendor involvement, live-deployment evidence, trading workflow role, client-account cov…

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  • SEC Automation / Replacement Reviewed

    SEC Presto AI voice automation

    Source: SEC v. Presto Automation Inc. January 14, 2025 Checked May 22, 2026

    Risk pattern: AI automation claim without disclosure of third-party technology, human intervention rate, or completion metric definition

    Evidence gap: Technology ownership and vendor role, deployed-unit coverage, human intervention rate, order-completion metric definitio…

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  • FTC Accuracy / Performance Pending

    FTC Content at Scale AI detector

    Source: FTC: Content at Scale AI / Workado LLC August 28, 2025 Checked May 24, 2026

    Risk pattern: Headline accuracy number without disclosed benchmark, test corpus, or error rate records

    Evidence gap: Benchmark design and test corpus description, content types and categories included, AI model versions covered at time o…

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