VoIP numbers are not really a thing. I mean there are pools usually assigned from that other companies are aware of, but it's not enforced. You can buy a custom number and use it if you want. For example I had a residential landline number from my home town assigned and routed to a mobile in another country for better billing when my family wants to call.

Nah, this is just how people will get screwed. Proper regulations will only be introduced if those in power care.

It's time to just stop using the telephone, it's only for scams and mother's day

Elections are how we get that, but imagine the nonsense we’re all going to have to endure between now and January.

The FCC and Verizon / ATT / T-Mobile allowed the phone system to be ruined in this country by continuing to route calls for spammers and scammers for decades. It's handfuls of people and organized crime causing the vast majority of the problems. Instead of actually investigating this stuff and shutting it down systemically and throwing these people in prison, they let it get so bad that we're just deciding as a society that we'd rather not have real-time voice communications because the few companies that run them haven't been good stewards of the technology.

> everyone will block numbers not in contacts.

Already been doing that for a solid 20+ years now, ever since PocketPC/Windows Mobile first introduced the feature. But OpenAI getting SIP support is not some great new existential threat... we've had similar APIs for years with services like Twilio.

> and everyone will block numbers not in contacts.

I've had this configured for a while now due to my number being leaked all over the place and getting 4-8 spam calls a day :/

Is that why I’m suddenly getting fax spam this year?

Every few weeks, it’s either a fake invoice or investment pitch.

Since I receive them as a PDF in an email, I wonder if prompt injection via fax has been done.

You know we've had SIP via APIs for close to 20 years already, right?