Ledger / May 2025
Impersonator of Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles calls officials
Suspected
WSJ-derived report says officials think AI may have imitated her voice; not confirmed.
Calls and texts purporting to be Wiles reached prominent contacts from numbers that were not hers. Officials said AI voice imitation may have been used.
“US looking into attempt to impersonate Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles: Report”Yahoo News
Sources
- US looking into attempt to impersonate Trump chief of staff Susie WilesYahoo News · 30 May 2025 · secondary source
- Date
- May 2025
- Disclosed
- 30 May 2025
- Actor
- unknown (unknown), as attributed by Yahoo News
- Targets
- Senators, governors and executives contacted as Susie Wiles
- What the AI did
- Deepfake, Social engineering
- Model
- unspecified voice-clone/deepfake tool
- Model family
- Deepfake / voice
- Model basis
- inferred
- Autonomy
- assist
- Outcome
- FBI investigating; outcome of contacts not public.