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ARTICLE · 08 SEPTEMBER 2025

FTC's AI Crackdown Continues: Workado Ordered To Drop Unsupported Accuracy Claims

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The FTC has taken another decisive step in its enforcement of misleading AI advertising. On August 28, 2025, the Commission approved a final consent order against Workado, LLC (formerly Content at Scale AI)...

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The FTC has taken another decisive step in its enforcement of misleading AI advertising. On August 28, 2025, the Commission approved a final consent order against Workado, LLC (formerly Content at Scale AI) for overstating the accuracy of its AI "content detection" tool.

What Happened

Workado marketed its AI Content Detector as being able to reliably distinguish human-written content from AI-generated text—and claimed it was broadly trained to serve average consumers. According to the FTC, however, the tool was actually trained almost exclusively on academic content and performed poorly beyond that domain. The broad applicability claims thus amounted to deception.

The final order requires Workado to:

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Originally published by the New York Legal Ethics Reporter

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