US Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) has pressed leading AI voice cloning companies ElevenLabs, LOVO, Speechify, and VEED to enhance measures against the exploitation of their products by scammers, following an FBI report indicating that AI-related scams resulted in $893 million in losses in 2025. As Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, Senator Hassan (1) highlighted the increasing use of AI voice-generating tools by global criminal networks to create deepfake materials for personalized scams, including impersonations of public figures and loved ones; (2) emphasized the need for collaboration between public and private sectors to combat these scams, citing investigations revealing inadequate safeguards against nonconsensual voice cloning among popular AI platforms; and (3) referenced specific cases, including a New York man’s sentencing for a grandparent scam that utilized AI to mimic voices, and ongoing investigations into the roles of AI companies and other entities in protecting Americans from fraud.
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