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Panel warns AI and deepfakes are amplifying robocall and robotext scams
Summary
Witnesses told the committee that generative AI and voice cloning have made scams more convincing and scalable, shifting attacks from mass spoofing to targeted and AI-enhanced impersonation that is harder for consumers to detect.
Witnesses at the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing described how artificial intelligence has changed the makeup of robocall and robotext scams, making them faster, more convincing and more damaging. Testimony divided AI harms into two broad categories: text-generation tools that scale and polish fraudulent messages, and voice/video impersonation tools that enable real-time deepfake scams.
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