The time has come to ban robocalls using AI-generated voices

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
2 min readFeb 2, 2024

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IMAGE: A text in black reading “Phone scams” with a forbidden sign in red on top
IMAGE: Paco Silva — Pixabay

In response to the growing use of the voices of celebrities in robocalls, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to ban generative artificial intelligence for voice synthesis as part of telephone marketing campaigns.

A week ago, a campaign of fraudulent calls using the sinthetized voice of Joe Biden tried to convince between 5,000 and 25,000…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)