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Complaints about AI-voiced robo calls triple in three months
Original: Complaints about 'robo calls' using automated voice triple in three months https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/bbc-radi
Complaints about 'robo calls' that use automated voices have tripled in just three months, according to figures reported by the BBC and covered by the Evening Standard. The rise points to scammers increasingly deploying synthetic speech technology to reach people at scale, prompting growing concern among regulators and consumers.
Why now: Rapid growth in AI-generated scam calls is raising fresh alarm about voice-cloning fraud and weak safeguards.
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- Complaints about 'robo calls' using automated voice triple in three months https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/bbc-radio-b1300148.html # Tech # Scam # News · the_standard@robot.villas · 4
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