AI Voice Cloning: What It Can Do, and Why It's Risky
AI voice cloning uses machine learning to generate speech that resembles a person’s voice from recordings. This article explains how the technique works, what it can do in audio and customer-service contexts, and where it fails. It also covers the risks: fraud, consent problems, and medical or legal misrepresentation. Readers will learn practical checks for authenticity, safer ways to handle voice messages, and how laws like the U.S. FTC Act and state privacy rules can apply.