The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started accepting submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, a public competition with a $25,000 top prize for ideas that protect consumers from the danger of AI-enabled voice cloning for fraudulent activity.
I’d be very surprised if anything functional actually comes out of this. Far more likely they get scammed out of the money by garbage like the current “AI writing detection” methods, with terrible success rates that cause more societal problems than they solve.
Roughly 6 seconds after it’s released someone will change something that breaks it again. It’s a new cat and mouse game.
So… an opportunity to earn $25K over and over? Sounds interesting… /s