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FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on making the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal.

A recent anti-voting robocall used an artificially generated version of President Joe Biden's voice.

An analysis by the company Pindrop concluded that the artificial Biden voice was created using a text-to-speech engine offered by ElevenLabs.

As the FCC noted yesterday, the TCPA "restricts the making of telemarketing calls and the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages."

Rosenworcel said her proposed ruling will "recognize this emerging technology as illegal under existing law, giving our partners at State Attorneys General offices across the country new tools they can use to crack down on these scams and protect consumers.

"AI-generated voice cloning and images are already sowing confusion by tricking consumers into thinking scams and frauds are legitimate," Rosenworcel said.

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