Comment on FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters

• gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can do all this things without robo calls. There are no robo calls in Germany for example.

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  • scorpionix@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought I lived in a pretty backwards part of Germany but your corne must be extremely off the grid!

    To just name one example in Germany: Verification via robo call in WhatsApp.

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    • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, I genuinely didn’t know there are robo calls in Germany, never encountered them - always used sms or other kinds of verification. My bad.

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      • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Today, history was made. For the first time someone politely admitted they were wrong on the internet

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  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of course there are. I've just won the lottery, for example. Again.

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• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How about ban non-opt in robocalls?

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It would be a good trade. Lose the few semi-useful legitimate ones to get rid of the overwhelming majority which are malicious scammers and conservative dickbags.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No there isn’t.

  Text if school is cancelled. Throw 2fa out the window. Phone numbers are not identity. Text appointment reminders. Literally nothing needs a robo voice that isn’t better as text.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What if you’re blind

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then you clearly don’t matter to Mango.

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    • reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Blind people use special assistive software on their phones so they can hear text

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Radio. Text to speech. Having someone who cares about you.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You want your doctor to broadcast your appointment reminders over the radio?

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  • kyle@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Phone numbers actually can be an identity, but generally that’s just business numbers. There’s also a lot of phone numbers that aren’t cell phones and can’t get texts. It’s a lot easier and cheaper for companies to design one system. Depending on the company, they’ll still do text/email reminders for things. Old people like phone calls, so companies need to know their audience too. Again, cheaper to build a single system, so that tends to be the default.

    Source: I design call centers for a living, personally done probably 200+ projects over the years, in banking, insurance, retail, transportation, state/local govt, etc.

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Absolutely not. I can’t use my Amazon account because of this stupid shit.

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