Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

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.

  • schnapsman@feddit.deEnglish
    34·
    10 months ago

    If they banned all robocalling, wouldn’t that solve it? Can a prioritisation of quality of life over marketing include the phone space? Four US states ban billboards. With an ad blocker, the internet is usable. Nitpicking which tactics can be used in robocalls won’t hardly solve the vicious spread of misinformation in this way.

    • Timwi@kbin.social
      131·
      10 months ago

      I assume that banning all robocalls requires new legislation, whereas the regulation mentioned here didn’t.

    • dirthawker0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      56·
      10 months ago

      Robocalling isn’t inherently bad. 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. It’s just the political ads, scams, and sales that need to be made illegal and punishable.

      • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        111·
        10 months ago

        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

        Those scenarios would be better handled through email or text message. Nothing that should be handled by a robocall is urgent enough to warrant disturbing people with a phone call, it should just be text or email.

        An actual emergency call, requiring your immediate attention, should absolutely not be handled by robocalls. If it doesn’t require immediate attention, then a call is not necessary.

        • dirthawker0@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          10 months ago

          Personally I want fewer text messages coming up on my mobile. I give a lot of places the landline number precisely to avoid them.

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            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?

            • dirthawker0@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              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.

              • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                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)?

                • dirthawker0@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  10 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.

          • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I personally find calls to be much more annoying and disruptive than a text I can just ignore.