Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy<\/a> re-posted an opponent\u2019s steamy, AI-generated photo of herself \u2014 laughing off the would-be smear pic as an improvement.<\/p>\nAn X user posted the photo of the 49-year-old politician posing on a bed wearing a skimpy slip, blasting Italy\u2019s first woman prime minister as \u201cshameful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giorgia Meloni, prime minister of Italy since 2022. Cecilia Fabiano\/LaPresse\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
An X post from Meloni dismissing a risqu\u00e9 photo of her as AI-generated. Giorgia Meloni \/ X<\/p>\n
Meloni shared a screenshot of the post on Tuesday with an assurance that the photo is indeed fake \u2014 albeit fabulous.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeveral fake photos of me are circulating, generated with artificial intelligence \u2026 I must admit that whoever created them, at least in the attached case, has also improved me quite a bit,\u201d wrote the politician, who was elected in 2022.<\/p>\n
She went on to warn against ne\u2019er-do-wells who use artificial intelligence to dupe voters, condemning all such material, however sexy.<\/p>\n
Meloni has championed right-wing policies and aligned herself with President Donald Trump IPA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n
\u201cDeepfakes are a dangerous tool because they can deceive, manipulate, and strike anyone. I can defend myself. Many others cannot,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Meloni is a conservative who ran on an \u201cItaly first,\u201d tough-on-immigration platform. <\/p>\n
She has aligned herself with President Trump \u2014 although their public relationship cooled somewhat after Trump\u2019s sharp criticism of Pope Leo XIV.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s some spicy Italian! Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy re-posted an opponent\u2019s steamy, AI-generated photo of herself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[552,273,952,2110,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-60003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-giorgia-meloni","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-giorgia-meloni","10":"tag-italy","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116529679699265447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}