Worked at a "customer support" once and got peculiar about the strange audio interface they used. Turns out they recorded every support agent while all incoming calls were fake and the callers mood and words aimed at evoking emotional responses from the support agents.
Germany, all big telcos involved and even a huge advertiser. Big teeth, strong bite. Years prior a big shot lawyer tried to get them for something else. Had hard evidence (proof). He settled of course, which was a bit off-character for that guy but if you kept digging, you'd find the classic scheme with big financial institutions and even intelligence agencies involved.
They needed a good cause, of course, so rehabilitation & reintegration of youthful offenders as well as ADHD types in therapy (yes, such institutions were directly involved as well) and other 'not yet lost causes' were 'hired' and got paid quite well to get them hooked on monetary reward mechanisms for upselling while 'helping people who are seeking support', so one would naturally be inclined to say that it wasn't bad at all but the opposite, actually; and I would absolutely agree if I didn't think that the vision and leadership of high status people over an obedient FUBU mob through the coming hard times wasn't complete trash.
Especially while these soooo complex relationships in the middle east and in the 'defected' viking gene pools are creating "strong people" in the hard times and conditions in war zones who then emigrate to do anything at all cost in the countries they arrive in, feeding Mafia and gangs, lowering supply chain and product quality (aided by governments), increasing exposure to drugs and lowest-end-behaviours and language (think music, film, club culture) and on and on the list goes on ...
But hey, 'the candy man' was/is a thing, too. Natural selection, I guess, hahahaha.
It's necessary to create counter-measures tho, because legal or illegal barely matters if it serves a big and influential enough interest-group, which nobody can be blamed for but if you don't get caught "nailing" some shady stuff to a wall, you're fine.
And it's never about 'then the next guy will take his place'. It's a cute bullshit narrative but not how balance and active balancing work.
I don't know what the state of the art is for completely synthetic TTS, so maybe the project will come back at some point.