TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Feb 8, 2024

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has declared that calls made with AI-generated voices are illegal. The decision comes after a fake robocall imitating President Joe Biden sought to dissuade people from voting for him in New Hampshire's Democratic primary election. Reuters reports that the FCC noted that state attorneys general previously could target the outcome of an unwanted AI-voice-generated robocall, but the new action makes the act of using AI to generate a voice in these robocalls itself illegal. On Tuesday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joined 50 other bipartisan attorneys general on the nationwide Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force in sending a warning letter to Life Corporation (Life Corp), the company allegedly behind the New Hampshire robocalls. “Using AI to spam voters’ phones with robocalls and inaccurate election information is illegal and fundamentally anti-American. Not to mention, it’s creepy,” Skrmetti said in a statement.