{"id":106495,"date":"2025-05-16T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106495\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:33:09","slug":"weird-ai-generated-babies-greet-european-leaders-at-albanian-summit-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106495\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird AI-generated babies greet European leaders at Albanian summit \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some, however, were less amused. Turkey\u2019s Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan stayed stony throughout the film, but let a slight smile slip when his version came up, a small baby with a mustache.<\/p>\n<p>During a speech after the film, Meloni thanked Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for the video and for \u201cmaking me feel very young again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The video could very well have been the brainchild of Rama, who has developed a reputation as a quirky figure. He was formerly a painter living in France and is known for his playful character.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Rama \u2014 who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/albania-election-edi-rama-socialist-party-maga-opponents-eu-accession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comfortably reelected this week<\/a> \u2014 welcomed visiting leaders with trademark sneakers and fell to his knees in mock rapture when Meloni arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The topics on the table in Tirana, however, are far from amusing. European leaders, a majority of them Ukraine supporters, are hoping to increase the pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-preparing-new-sanctions-package-against-russia-says-von-der-leyen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with new sanctions<\/a> as talks between Kyiv and Moscow begin in Istanbul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some, however, were less amused. Turkey\u2019s Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan stayed stony throughout the film, but let a slight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[10541,43669,2000,299,5187,36,2440,2348,48802,269,8536,2663,461,657,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-106495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-albania","9":"tag-edi-rama","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-giorgia-meloni","15":"tag-history","16":"tag-mette-frederiksen","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","19":"tag-sanctions","20":"tag-turkey","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114518006456592001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}