The FCC, or Federal Communications Commission, has issued a statement declaring that robocalls, which use artificially generated voices to offer products or services, are inherently illegal. The FCC’s announcement states that previously, individuals using AI voices were often malicious actors who deceived victims by mimicking well-known individuals or even the voices of their own relatives. However, this announcement now establishes the use of AI voices as illegal in and of itself, eliminating the need to prove deception.
Though directly targeting these malicious actors who deceive victims may prove challenging, this announcement opens the door for the FCC to ban phone networks used by these wrongdoers to make AI voice calls to numbers within the United States.
TLDR: The FCC has deemed robocalls using AI voices to be illegal, eliminating the need to prove deception. This opens the door for the FCC to ban phone networks used by these malicious actors.
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