Behind faked AI automation, prosecutors keep finding hidden human workers.
SEC and FTC complaints repeatedly reveal that products sold as autonomous AI actually ran on undisclosed offsite workers or manual workflows — the deception is concealed human labor, not merely overstated capability.
The same conclusion keeps arriving from across the workspace's research — 1 topics independently instantiate this theme. Filter the evidence by where it came from:
The SEC's first public-company AI-washing order found the 'automated' voice product was actually remote humans taking orders.
The 'AI software' promising near-total automation actually ran on intensive manual workflows performed by the customers themselves.
The 'fully automated' checkout app ran at near-zero automation on hundreds of hidden contract workers mimicking the machine.