<story><title>FTC proposes new protections to combat AI impersonation of individuals</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-proposes-new-protections-combat-ai-impersonation-individuals</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>Seems like this is broader than just AI impersonation. It also would include a person claiming to be from the government when they’re not.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Falsely imply government or business affiliation by using terms that are known to be affiliated with a government agency or business (e.g., stating “I’m calling from the Clerk’s Office” to falsely imply affiliation with a court of law).&lt;p&gt;My first thought on this was &lt;i&gt;great, I’m glad the FTC is doing something about this and I’m surprised it wasn’t already regulated by the FTC&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;My second thought was the majority of this type of fraud is probably from foreign impersonation, not Americans. And it’s not like they’d be sending in predator drones for surgical strikes against scam call centers, as satisfying as that might be.&lt;p&gt;My third thought was that having this on the books and keeping a record of these violations will give the FTC leverage to crack down on telecoms that don’t do anything about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>&amp;gt; My second thought was the majority of this type of fraud is probably from foreign impersonation, not Americans.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s an industry for it in India, because they can source english call center workers there fairly easily.&lt;p&gt;The youtuber Mark Rober ran into a couple of US mules for these sorts of scams while working on one of his prank videos, and decided to team up with some other youtubers to troll some of these companies in India. The video on it is worth watching: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xsLJZyih3Ac&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xsLJZyih3Ac&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>FTC proposes new protections to combat AI impersonation of individuals</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-proposes-new-protections-combat-ai-impersonation-individuals</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>Seems like this is broader than just AI impersonation. It also would include a person claiming to be from the government when they’re not.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Falsely imply government or business affiliation by using terms that are known to be affiliated with a government agency or business (e.g., stating “I’m calling from the Clerk’s Office” to falsely imply affiliation with a court of law).&lt;p&gt;My first thought on this was &lt;i&gt;great, I’m glad the FTC is doing something about this and I’m surprised it wasn’t already regulated by the FTC&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;My second thought was the majority of this type of fraud is probably from foreign impersonation, not Americans. And it’s not like they’d be sending in predator drones for surgical strikes against scam call centers, as satisfying as that might be.&lt;p&gt;My third thought was that having this on the books and keeping a record of these violations will give the FTC leverage to crack down on telecoms that don’t do anything about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyanydeez</author><text>indeed, almost no novel criminality or fraud is occuring.&lt;p&gt;robocalls should just be illegal. unidentified propaganda should be banned. ads with fraudulent claims should be prosecuted.&lt;p&gt;you can argue about &amp;quot;to what degree&amp;quot; but AI isn&amp;#x27;t doing anything but exposing the true lack of enforcing of existing laws because of capitalism grease.</text></comment>