The advent of generative-AI tools has brought challenging questions of accountability to the forefront, especially when those tools generate content that may infringe on someone’s copyright. Determining liability—whether it falls on the user who prompted the tool, or the company that developed the tool—is complex. As technology outpaces current legal frameworks, courts have been cautious
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This past week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced in a press release that it has banned the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls. Specifically, the FCC adopted a ruling that finds calls using AI-generated voices to be classified as “artificial” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). As the FCC explains on its website