Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

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.

  • GormadtEnglish
    7•10 months ago

    If the origin of the call is outside the US it’s much harder to prosecute the illegal calls

    • Saik0English
      2•10 months ago

      Not really? You don’t allow companies who don’t operate in the USA to have USA based numbers. And don’t allow them to spoof numbers. This way people can actually block international calls if they don’t want them and it’s clear from the get-go that it’s not Microsoft or your state representative calling you from India.

      • GormadtEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        Not allowing spoofed numbers would be a great improvement that I wish our government (or it agencies) would do

        That would do a lot to stop these kinds of calls

        • Saik0English
          4•10 months ago

          They could even allow “Aliased” numbers… eg, a company has 10 numbers, and all outgoing come from the “main” number… But that should be specifically registered and validated by phone carriers as a thing rather than just showing the spoofed CID that we get these days. that way if the number generates complaints, the government can simply look at the registered alias and punish the correct people.

          • GormadtEnglish
            1•10 months ago

            That’s a great idea

            In practice it prevents any rando from using a spoofed number and still allows corporations to have their internal phone lines behind a layer of obscurity

    • @abhibeckertEnglish
      0•10 months ago

      But how stupid would you have to be to take a call from half way around the world and listen to their advice about the upcoming election? A phone call that claims to come from a local politician is a lot more believable if it comes from a local number.

      • NinaEnglish
        12•10 months ago

        They spoof numbers. It almost always is a number from my state or the area code, very rarely do I get calls from out of state and they are all already labeled “spam risk/telemarketer” when they come in.

        Also thank you for writing this comment, I was going to say ios had no way to block unknown numbers, but I searched to double check myself and they finally do have that option! It may have been around for quite awhile, I hadn’t checked for a long while.