Federal Trade Commission Announces Voice Cloning Challenge
Summary
On November 16, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it will host a Voice Cloning Challenge, pursuant to the America Competes Act, to help develop protections against AI voice cloning. Voice cloning is increasingly used by scammers to deceive consumers and the FTC is continuing its efforts to protect people against malicious misuse of the technology. The challenge is designed, like previous challenges, to encourage the development of tools that support the FTC’s mission to protect consumers. Submissions must be targeted to at least one of three intervention points: • Prevention or authentication: ways to limit the unauthorized use of voice cloning software. • Real-time detection or monitoring: ways to detect cloned voices. • Post-use evaluation: ways to check if a audio clip contains cloned voices. Submissions must contain an abstract and a detailed explanation, with an optional video submission. Participants can access the submission portal from January 2 to 12, 2024, and the winner will receive $25,000. Further information can be found on the challenge website.
