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

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This will be as effective as the do not call registry and CAN-SPAM. Which is to say, it will be a sick joke that won’t do shit by design.

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember signing up for the Do Not Call registry. I got more spam robo calls after signing up than I did before signing up for it. It was a joke.

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    • riquisimo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey everyone! Here’s a list of phone numbers! Real, legitimate phone numbers! Anyone can view this list of phone numbers, for free!

      But whatever you do, DON’T call anyone on this list, OK??

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  • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    CAN-SPAM is effective for legitimate businesses with something to lose. Several times I’ve ended up on a list with an unsubscribe link that doesn’t work. I contact their support, and if they don’t do anything I send them an email demanding they remove me and cc’ing the federal trade commission and my states attorney general. Hasn’t failed yet.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How about just ban robocalls outright?

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  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly what does ban mean here? A fine if and when they do something about it? Maybe?

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• MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here’s an idea… why not ban all robo-calls?

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  • officermike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because there are legitimate reasons for some robo calls. Appointment reminders and confirmations, school weather closure announcements, two-factor login verification, etc.

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    • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How about ban non-opt in robocalls?

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    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    iirc, they are banned... to cell phones, with very limited exceptions.

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• RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sure they’ll expend the effort to track the offenders down and slap them on the wrist.

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  • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless they’re evil radical leftist Democrats, those Marxist-Leninist Antifa communist fascist socialists. Then they’ll be hanged.

    MAGAts get a wrist slap.

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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But deceiving people for money is fine? Why this one stipulation? Should just be outright illegal to use deep fake anything to deceive for personal gain, profit, or to hurt others.

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• YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this like how the FCC banned robocalls and ensured that a national do not call list is respected?

  Oh boy, were saved /s

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, most robocalls these days aren’t domestic in origin

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• reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fine? They will be happy to pay the fine if it means they can fool thousands of voters.

  Fines aren’t enough for this kind of behavior.

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  • PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Alternative title: “FCC set to make record revenue this election season!”

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fines are enforced with prison. It’s just the portion of wealth and income that determines how much distance is between the two

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  • Poach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, the FCC probably doesn’t have the power to do much more than fine them. It would probably take congress to pass a bill to have jail time or something.

    I’m purely guessing though

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• TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sure if they do catch someone that did this the fine will either be $10 or $125.

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  • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Profit from calls: $42069

    Fine from calls: $2000

    Gee, I wonder why people still break the law?!

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oooh that mighty governmental watchdog the FCC?! Oh man, that’s some serious stuff. The only group more deadly serious than the FCC is the FEC. Now those guys you can’t even look at sideways before they take you down.

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• just_change_it@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “This infringes on advertisers constitutional right to deceive the public for personal gain based on our historical tradition of fucking the average american”-US Supreme Court Conservatives.

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Robo-callers usually don’t care at all what the law says. This law will do almost nothing. But it’s the thought that counts.

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Somebody did something about all the extended warranty calls, but yeah I’m still skeptical.

    During election time there are a lot of motivated irrational people out there who are determined to have their candidate win by any means necessary since the other side is so corrupt and are already probably playing the same tricks they want to play.

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    • DinosaurSr@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Holy shit! I haven’t gotten any of those in a long time. Anyone know who did something and what?

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