FTC Announces Winners of Voice Cloning Challenge
The Federal Trade Commission has chosen four winning submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge to promote the development of ideas to protect consumers from the misuse of artificial intelligence-enabled voice cloning for fraud and other harms.
- The Federal Trade Commission has chosen four winning submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge to promote the development of ideas to protect consumers from the misuse of artificial intelligence-enabled voice cloning for fraud and other harms.
- “Tapping American ingenuity is critical to solving big abuses like deceptive voice cloning,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
- “We’re recognizing people who are pushing science forward and proposing different options to ensure a robust landscape of solutions,” said Stephanie T. Nguyen, the FTC’s Chief Technologist.
- The technology evaluates each incoming phone call or digital audio in two-second chunks and flags those that are potential deep fakes.
- The four winning submissions demonstrate the potential for cutting edge technology to help mitigate risks of voice cloning in the marketplace.
- Voice cloning technology offers potential benefits by, for example, providing new ways for those who have impaired speech to communicate in their own voice with the help of technology.
- For example, scammers have used voice cloning technology to impersonate business executives in order to fraudulently obtain money or valuable information.