{"id":16312,"date":"2024-08-22T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T10:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/lingo-telecom-fined-1-million-for-biden-deepfake-incident\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T10:32:33","slug":"lingo-telecom-fined-1-million-for-biden-deepfake-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/lingo-telecom-fined-1-million-for-biden-deepfake-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Lingo Telecom Fined $1 Million for Biden Deepfake Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Texas-based telecommunications company Lingo Telecom $1 million for distributing deepfakes of President Joe Biden, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-settles-spoofed-ai-generated-robocalls-case\">press release<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In January, an unknown individual used artificial intelligence to mimic Biden&#8217;s voice and made a series of calls to voters in New Hampshire, urging them to boycott the elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The regulator imposed the fine on Lingo Telecom to penalize its involvement in illegal deepfake fraud and to hold telecommunications companies accountable for the content they distribute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to paying the fine, the provider is required to implement a &#8220;historic compliance plan,&#8221; which includes strict adherence to FCC rules on caller ID authentication. These measures are intended to prevent fraud and deception.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lingo Telecom must also adhere to the principles of <span data-descr=\"Know Your Customer\" class=\"old_tooltip\">KYC<\/span> and <span data-descr=\"Know Your Upstream Provider\" class=\"old_tooltip\">KYUP<\/span>, enabling telephone operators to effectively monitor call traffic and ensure authentication compliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously, OpenAI halted the use of ChatGPT for influencing US elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August, it was reported that an 82-year-old pensioner lost $690,000 due to an AI-generated deepfake of Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"forklogAI\/5089\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>ForkLog has previously discussed popular fraud methods using neural networks and ways to combat scammers in its News+ format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Texas-based telecommunications company Lingo Telecom $1 million for distributing deepfakes of President Joe Biden, according to a press release.\u00a0 In January, an unknown individual used artificial intelligence to mimic Biden&#8217;s voice and made a series of calls to voters in New Hampshire, urging them to boycott the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1250,1304,36],"class_list":["post-16312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-deepfakes","tag-fines","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}