United States Department of State
Incidents Harmed By
Incident 114123 Report
Purported AI Voice Cloning Used to Impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio
2025-06-15
Sometime in mid-June 2025, an unknown actor reportedly used AI voice-cloning and text generation to impersonate U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The impostor allegedly contacted at least five high-level officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a member of Congress, via Signal and text messages. The actions reportedly aimed to manipulate targets into sharing sensitive information or account access.
MoreIncidents involved as Deployer
Incident 14681 Report
Purportedly AI-Enhanced Images of Iranian Women Protesters Were Reportedly Spread With Unverified Execution Claims
2026-04-21
A purportedly AI-edited collage of eight Iranian women political prisoners was reportedly amplified by President Donald Trump and U.S. government accounts alongside an unverified claim that all faced imminent execution. Reporting said the images were of real women but had been AI-enhanced, while later Iranian official mockery used AI-generated women. The episode reportedly blurred authentic human-rights documentation with synthetic material and helped Iran dismiss underlying abuses.
MoreRelated Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
Related Entities
Unknown deepfake technology developers
Incidents involved as Developer
- Incident 114123 Reports
Purported AI Voice Cloning Used to Impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Incidents implicated systems
Unknown voice cloning technology developers
Incidents involved as Developer
- Incident 114123 Reports
Purported AI Voice Cloning Used to Impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio