The third installment of the documentary looks at the involvement of police and AI in telemarketing
reveals the lengths the industry has gone to in creating a billion dollar scheme—and how the success of telemarketing is intertwined with law enforcement, artificial intelligence, and the political system.goes into the murky world of telemarketers, led by filmmaker Sam Lipman-Stern and his former colleague, Pat Pespas. The two met in the early 2000s while working at Civic Development Group —at one point the biggest telemarketing fundraising company in the U.S.
“These organizations are operating just on the borderline of illegality,” Detective Capt. Robert Rowan of the Clifton Police Department says in the documentary. “They disappear and reappear under a different name. It’s pretty hard to track them down once the money is donated, it's very difficult to get it back.”
“It's more wild west than ever,” Lipman-Stern tells TIME. “There’s less regulation, more phone calls and more money. It's crazy right now.”AI and PACs in telemarketing today And modern-day telemarketing has moved beyond calling just on behalf of charities and nonprofits, according to the documentary. Now, it includes the world of Political Action Committees , another relatively unregulated industry. The Federal Election Commission oversees PACs, whileIn the documentary, former FTC commissioner Ann Ravel says PACs will continue to face few regulations because of the involvement of politicians who benefit from them.
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