The FCC says AI voices in robocalls are illegal::undefined
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The FCC banning AI robocalls won’t do anything. Enforcement action can’t be taken because it’s so difficult to trace where these calls are even coming from. What really needs to be done is that carriers need to be required to verify any caller’s identity in order to trace them and prosecute illegal calls.
Right now, overseas scammers can pay to use VoIP services that place hundreds of calls a day to victims in the US and do so in complete anonymity, beyond the reach of the law. That needs to end. No more anonymous VoIP calls. If your identity isn’t verified, your call gets filtered, end of story.
It might stop the biggest local offenders, though. Remember those car warranty calls we used to all get 3 times a fucking week? They stopped after the FCC nailed the biggest offenders with a $300M fine.
Sure, we can’t stop them all, but we can slow 'em down quite a bit sometimes.
umm how about instead we just rate-limit calls instead of reducing privacy even more? Or some kind of phone captcha thing?
There are many legitimate reasons why someone might need to make real robocalls. The issue isn’t robocalls in general. It’s unwanted robocalls and scam robocalls. There is no way to tell these apart at the time they’re made. The only thing that can be done is to make identification easier in order to prosecute those who make them.
You need to accept that the telephone network is not, was not, and will never be a privacy-respecting system. Whenever you place a telephone call, your identity is known to your phone company. They know who you called, how long you called them, when you called them, and in all likelihood, what you said. The Government can intercept and record your calls. Your phone by default discloses your identity to the caller. Nothing is end-to-end encrypted. Telephones as a technology date back to before encryption was a thing, and at this point, to turn it into a privacy-respecting system where that privacy is enforced cryptographically or otherwise would result in the need to replace almost every non-cellular telephone in the world (which is a lot!). The best we can do is to forbid eavesdropping, except by law enforcement, and control what can be listened to by law.
If you want to use a privacy-respecting system, look elsewhere. True privacy on the telephone network will never exist, nor anything close to it. The best we can do is take advantage of that lack of privacy for the common good instead of desperately trying to pretend it’s private.
Good points, yeah it would probably better to do something like what you’re talking about.
It’s pretty rare that I get scam calls, there’s a do not call list in the us you can add your number to. When I do get a scam I always ask where they got my number, and tell them to take me off their list and to tell the list provider to take me off their list. Or if they tell me the list source, I follow up with it and try to remove myself
Too bad the FCC is about to be powerless thanks to a pending ruling from the illegitimate SCOTUS that will gut powers of federal agencies.
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I’ll do you one better. Humans have ruined the biosphere.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Federal Communications Commission ruled on Thursday that robocalls using voices generated by artificial intelligence are illegal, amid concerns over how the cutting-edge technology is being used to scam people and deceive voters.
“Bad actors are using AI-generated voices in unsolicited robocalls to extort vulnerable family members, imitate celebrities, and misinform voters,” FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement.
Last month in New Hampshire, a robocall using an apparently AI-generated voice depicting President Biden discouraging Democrats from voting reached thousands of voters just days before the state’s primary.
New Hampshire’s attorney general said this week a Texas telemarketer was behind the call, and that another Texas-based company transmitted it.
Rapidly advancing technology has led to the wide proliferation of tools that can easily generate realistic audio, video, and images.
That’s raised fears over how the technology can be abused to dupe people and create plausible-seeming evidence of events that never happened.
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