{"id":603,"date":"2024-02-09T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:22:59","slug":"breaking-the-law-was-never-this-voice-tacular-ai-produced-voices-in-robocalls-now-prohibited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Breaking the Law was Never this Voice-tacular: AI-Produced Voices in Robocalls Now Prohibited!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/output1-25.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><i>&#8220;AI-Generated Voices in Robocalls Are Now Illegal&#8221;<\/i><\/h6>\n<p>\n&#8220;The FCC proposed a fine against telemarketing company Salesroads for $225,000 because its calls that mimicked live humans were &#8216;pre-recorded voice messages&#8217;, which under the agency&#8217;s rules needs to be identified as such at the start of a call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shout out to the FCC for drawing the battle lines against telemarketing&#8217;s most annoying weapon, robocalls. Armed with a whopping proposed fine of $225,000, the brave knights of FCC ventured into the battlefield to wage war against Salesroads, proclaiming loudly, &#8220;Understand our rules, thank you very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The antagonist of this telemarketing saga? Well, no less than AI-generated voices masquerading as living, breathing humans. (You&#8217;ve got to love the audacity). The FCC evidently turned up their noses at this deception, and rightfully so. Under their iron-clad and foolproof rules, these artificial voices must duly introduce themselves as &#8216;pre-recorded voice messages\u2019 right at the start of a call.<\/p>\n<p>The plot thickens as the FCC defiantly stamps its authority on robocallers, citing violations of &#8216;truth-in-caller ID rules.&#8217; It seems while the tech boffins were brewing these sneaky AIs, they conveniently overlooked the FCC&#8217;s stringent rules about, oh you know, just a minor detail like being honest when identifying the caller. <\/p>\n<p>This melodrama does raise fascinating questions about the evolving intersection of technology and legislation. For Instance, when is an AI voice more than just a recording? Does it cross the line into human-like when it can react and respond to a caller&#8217;s questions naturally? To these questions, the FCC raises an eyebrow and sternly responds, \u201cLet&#8217;s not be cheeky, long live the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To summarize this soap opera in the tech world, it seems that while AI voices on the phone can eerily mimic human conversation, the FCC isn&#8217;t about to let them have their high-frequency modulated cake and eat it too. While this tale of technology skirting the edges of legality might be amusing to some, it surely serves as a hard-hitting reminder. One must always remember- in this advancing world of AI and tech, even the savviest of AI can&#8217;t outwit the steadfast regulations of the FCC. Bravo!<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ai-generated-voices-robocalls-illegal-fcc\/\">Read the original article here: https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ai-generated-voices-robocalls-illegal-fcc\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;FCC slaps Salesroads with a hefty $225k fine for their sneaky &#8216;live&#8217; robocalls; insists said calls start with, &#8216;Hi, I&#8217;m not real.&#8217; Robots, stop mimicking humans!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-3"],"acf":[],"_wp_page_template":null,"_edit_lock":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}