ROME (AP) 鈥� Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo of her 鈥� posing in bed, wearing lingerie 鈥� and complained that such artificial intelligence-created images were being used to attack her.
Meloni shared the photo in question on Facebook. She included with it an apparent post from someone named Roberto who apparently had himself shared it on social media with the commentary that Meloni should be 鈥渁shamed鈥� of herself.
Meloni warned against sharing such images on social media without verifying them.
鈥淒eepfakes are a dangerous tool because they can deceive, manipulate and target anyone. I can defend myself. Many others cannot,鈥� she warned in her Facebook post.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Meloni would report the incident to law enforcement, as she was urged to do by people commenting on her post. She acknowledged though that the photo manipulation 鈥渁ctually made me look a lot better.鈥�
鈥淏ut the fact remains that, in order to attack and fabricate lies, people will now use absolutely anything,鈥� she wrote.
It鈥檚 not the first time that the likeness of Meloni, Italy鈥檚 first female premier, has made waves. In February, a minor after a cherub bearing a striking appearance to Meloni appeared in a Roman church.
Then, Meloni made light of the manipulation.
鈥淣o, I definitely don鈥檛 look like an angel,鈥� Meloni wrote on social media with a laughing/crying emoji alongside a photo of the work.
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