Reportedly the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is pulling all efforts and resources to fight against the robocallers who use AI in their communication. In context to this issue, the regulator is taking the initiative forward to propose new rules that will make it mandatory for callers to explicitly state whether they are using AI in their calls and text messages at any point in the future. This step provides you with ease to get rid of AI-generated calls and messages on your Android phone or iPhone.
Furthermore, these disclosures will also have to be used for AI-generated calls which the FCC notes “contain an enhanced risk of fraud and other scams”. This states the earlier ban of FCCs on how robocalls using AI voice cloning tech in phone calls, don’t attain these calls unless there has been any emergency or if the person who called has provided specific content to receive such calls.
FCC proposal aims to increase transparency
The proposal is currently built essentially to monitor these types of calls, for reference the regulator has defined AI-generated calls as “An artificial or prerecorded voice or a text using computational technology or other machine learning, including predictive algorithms and large language models to process natural language and produce voice or text content to communicate with a called party over an outbound telephone call”.
The use of AI-generated software has carries only the exception that being considered people with speech or hearing disabilities, while highlighting this case the primary purpose of the software provides individuals with effective communication on phone calls. Therefore, the FCC is proposing that the benefit of getting these calls excludes any sort of unsocialized advertisement, and the person on the other side of the call is not charged to receive them.
However, talking about the Federal Communication Commission is currently seeking comments and feedback to make sure the scammers won’t get any chances to abuse this exception to the rule and how the proposal can be updated to keep away something like this that will cause any certain kind of happening.