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AI hoaxes fool 911 dispatchers and are harder to detect
People are using artificial intelligence to make fake emergency calls sound more convincing, including synthetic voices and realistic background noises. The hoaxes can send police to nonexistent crises, and improving technology is making them tougher for dispatchers to spot.
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