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But first, the FCC's war on Robocalls has gained a new weapon in its arsenal with the

declaration of AI-generated voices as artificial, and therefore definitely against the law when used in

automated calling scams. It may not stop the flood of fake Joe Biden's that

will almost certainly trouble our phones this election season but it won't

hurt either. The new rule contemplated for months and telegraph last week

isn't actually a new rule. The FCC can't just invent them with no due process.

Robocalls are just a new term for something largely already prohibited under the

Telephone Consumer Protection Act, artificial and pre-recorded messages being sent out willy-nilly to every number in the phone book,

something that still existed when they drafted the law. The question was whether an AI-cloned

voice speaking a script falls under those prescribed categories.

It may seem obvious to you, but nothing is obvious to the federal government by design, and

sometimes for other reasons, and the FCC needed to look into it and

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