Wednesday, August 21, 2024

YouMail Partners To Battle Election Deepfakes

Irvine-based voicemail services provider YouMail said this morning that it has inked a partnership to keep people from being hit by deepfaked artificial intelligence (AI) calling campaigns. According to YouMail, it has partnered with Pintrop, to identify and stop calls utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) or deepfake technologies targeting the public to interfere with US elections. Financial details of that partnership were not announced. The company said Pindrop's "Pulse Inspect" tool is being used to detect AI-generated speech in phone calls gathered from the 20 million phone numbers that YouMail's sensor network collects and analyzes.