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FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you want to replace the 1-10 sms messages with robocalls? You want to receive 1-10 calls a day that is literally one-two lines of text?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They go to the landline which I ignore most all the time. Plus I don't get 1-10 calls a day. If I did. I would definitely want to not be bothered by them coming in on my mobile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Utilities and such institutions that have your membership (library, gym, health care etc) should be welcome to use robocalling to notify you of useful info like emergencies or changes to their schedules.

You want them to make texts they already send a robocall instead. These are literally your words. And since you never answer your landline by you own words, you never actually receive the content they're sending. Why wouldn't you instead rather they didn't do either (sending automated texts and robocalls)?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that I want them to send texts. I don't want unnecessary messages on my mobile phone, since it's with me all the time, where I feel more compelled to look at it. I would rather they send a voicemail to my landline and I can listen to the message when I feel like it. Most of the time I'm working on my computer and I can hear the voicemail being recorded in the background, and that's all I need. By using the landline I'm offloading relatively unimportant stuff away from the more distracting device, the mobile.