| "Today the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its Voice Cloning Challenge, a competition to create a realistic and secure voice cloning technology to protect consumers from fraudulent activities. The Voice Cloning Challenge seeks to encourage innovation by recognizing developers who can create or enhance voice cloning technology with the latest research in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The FTC is asking for ideas that improve the accuracy of voice cloning while also making it secure from fraudsters. FTC Launches Voice Cloning Challenge to Combat Fraud The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced their Voice Cloning Challenge, a competition to create a secure and realistic voice cloning technology to protect consumers from fraudulent activities. This challenge seeks to stimulate innovation and recognize developers who can create or enhance voice cloning technology using the latest research in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Voice Cloning Challenge will reward ideas which improve the accuracy and security of voice cloning. The FTC has seen the need for more secure and efficient solutions to combat fraud and identity theft, and believes that the introduction of a voice cloning challenge is a positive step towards this goal. This challenge aims to find novel approaches to make voice cloning more secure and reliable, so that it can be used in applications as an identification method for financial transactions, access to accounts, and even autonomous systems. The FTC's Voice Cloning Challenge calls for developers to submit their work on voice cloning technology before the deadline of August 1st. Applicants will be evaluated on the accuracy of their voice cloning technology and its security features, with the top performers receiving monetary awards. The FTC is hopeful that the challenge will result in the development of a secure and realistic voice cloning technology to keep consumers safe from fraud. |