Thailand Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra won’t say whose voice it was, but according to CNN’s reporting on an AI-generated voice call she got from someone pretending to be a “well-known” world leader, it’s at least kind of obvious which particular leader it was.
“The voice was very clear, and I recognized it immediately. They first sent a voice clip, saying something like, ‘How are you? I want to work together,’ and so on,” said Shinawatra. “They sent another voice message asking for a donation, saying, ‘You are the only country in (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) that hasn’t donated yet,’ emphasizing it. I was taken aback for a moment and realized something was off” and whoever sent it “probably used AI to take the voice” of this unspecified world leader. Who else would be shaking people down for donations right now?