By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The chair of the Federal Communications Commission asked the CEOs of AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and other cable and telecom carriers to detail efforts to crack down on fraudulent political robocalls that are generated by AI, the agency said Thursday. Last month Steven Kramer, a Louisiana Democratic political consultant, was indicted over […]
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice made his first court appearance Wednesday in New Hampshire, where he is charged with voter suppression and impersonating a candidate ahead of the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Steven Kramer, who also faces a proposed $6 million fine from […]
A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking US President Joe Biden’s voice to voters ahead of New Hampshire’s presidential primary faces a six million-dollar (£4.7 million) fine and more than two dozen criminal charges. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said the fine it proposed on Thursday for Steven Kramer is its first involving […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission has issued a $6 million fine against a political consultant who sent AI-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice to voters ahead of New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Steve Kramer, who also faces two dozen criminal charges in New Hampshire, has admitted orchestrating a message that was sent […]
Far-right operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay New York Attorney General Letitia James‘ office up to $1.2 million for a robocall campaign they put together to suppress the Black vote ahead of the 2020 election. “Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt […]
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two conservative operatives who launched a robocall campaign designed to prevent Black New Yorkers from voting by mail in the 2020 U.S. election will pay $1.25 million in a settlement, New York state Attorney General Letitia James said on Tuesday. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were found liable by a […]
CONCORD — The League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to prevent those who sent robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’ s voice to New Hampshire voters from using artificial intelligence for future deceptions. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in New Hampshire against Steve Kramer, the political consultant behind the call, and […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to prevent those who sent robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’ s voice to New Hampshire voters from using artificial intelligence for future deceptions. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in New Hampshire against Steve Kramer, the political consultant behind the […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The political consultant behind a robocall that mimicked President Joe Biden’s voice said Monday he was trying to send a wake-up call about the potential malign uses of artificial intelligence, not influence the outcome of last month’s New Hampshire primary. Steve Kramer, in an interview days after he was publicly identified […]
When was the last time you got a call from an unknown number? Chances are very recent. Likely, the person on the other end wasn’t a human, but rather a spam call or a robocall. These types of calls have evolved over the past few years. They were once very obviously spam – often starting […]
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Calls made with AI-generated voices are illegal, the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday, after a fake robocall imitating President Joe Biden sought to dissuade people from voting for him in New Hampshire’s Democratic primary election. The declaratory ruling gives state attorneys general new tools to go after the entities […]
Robocalls with voices generated by artificial intelligence are now illegal, according to a ruling issued Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission. The ruling, which falls under the existing Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, “protects consumers from unwanted calls made using an artificial or prerecorded voice,” federal officials said. “In relevant part, the TCPA prohibits […]