Probably should be read as "bad actors", who, with enough samples of your voice, could theoretically do shady things like robo-call your mom, pretending to be you.

Okay, that’s pretty different from ad companies. I’ve worked in the ads space and what the poster mentioned doesn’t apply in any manner, AFAIK.

it's a joke, but it's not inconceivable that chatbots which support voice like chatgpt will use voice fingerprinting for ads