It has reached one of the most recognized in the world. The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Melonihas reported being victim of a campaign deepfakes or directly from images created from nothing with their face and in sexualized positions or clothing.
Meloni has published a warning message on his social networks. “These days, they have been circulating several fake photos of megenerated with artificial intelligence and presented as real by some enthusiastic detractors,” he writes in X.
The Italian president has not lacked a dose of her particular irony, ensuring that “I must admit that whoever created them, at least in the attached case, also It has improved me considerably“.
But beyond that nuance, Meloni denounces something that many women around the world have been suffering in recent months and assumes that this matter “goes beyond me,” because “I can defend myself, but many others cannot“.
“The truth is that, to attack and invent falsehoods, people now use anything. However, the issue goes beyond me. Los deepfakes They are a dangerous tool because they can deceive, manipulate and harm anyone. I can defend myself. Many others don’t,” explains Meloni.
In the tweet, where he attached a false image of himself, he added as advice that “one rule should always apply: verify before you believe and believe before you share“”Because today it happens to me (but) tomorrow it could happen to anyone,” he concludes.
Giorgia Meloni’s complaint adds to those already launched publicly by personalities and countless anonymous womenwho have seen images of them created or modified by AI tools to be sexualized.
The , owned by Elon Musk. Throughout the network, comments multiplied for weeks in which users asked Grok undress a person or change your outfit for others like tight bikinis, transparent garments or similar. In a good part of these requests and as long as the user was verified—those who pay X, well—, Grok agreed without any problem.
The ‘ball’ was getting bigger, as were the complaints from users and organizations. Shortly after, the social network Elon Musk apologized and announced a response plan to avoid the generation of these contents.
In parallel, institutions such as European Union and governments like that of Spain They advanced the generation of sexualized content of people without their consent.
