PM of Italy Giorgia Meloni Demands Damages of More Than $100,000 over Deepfake Videos

 According to the indictment, the movies were seen "millions of times" for several months after being posted on a pornographic website in the United States.

Giorgia Meloni


Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister of Italy, is suing for damages of 100,000 euros ($109,345) when deepfake footage of her appeared online. According to investigators, the two guys recorded explicit recordings of Ms. Meloni by overlaying her face on the body of another person, which they subsequently posted online. The BBC reports that the 40-year-old man and his 73-year-old father are accused of defamation.
The police claim that by following the smartphone used to submit the videos, they were able to find them. The disputed deepfake video was made in 2022 before she was named the country's Prime Minister.

Interestingly, there are defamation cases in Italy that can be prosecuted as crimes and carry jail sentences. On July 2, Ms. Meloni will give a testimony in court. According to the indictment, the movies were seen "millions of times" over several months after being posted on a pornographic website in the United States.

The Italian PM's legal team stated that the damages claim was "symbolic". Additionally, they stated that Ms. Meloni would give the full sum to "support women who have been victims of male violence." The demand for the compensation, according to Ms. Meloni's attorney Maria Giulia Marongiu, will "send a message to women who are victims of this kind of abuse of power not to be afraid to press charges."

A deepfake is a kind of synthetic media that mimics real-world information by manipulating or creating visual and auditory elements through artificial intelligence, frequently with malevolent intent.

According to MIT, the term "deepfake" first surfaced in late 2017 when a Reddit user using by the same name created a platform for distributing pornographic videos created using open-source face-swapping technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in deepfake to produce images or videos that seem to be real-world events. It creates photos or films of fictitious events using deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence advances have made deepfakes increasingly realistic and widespread.





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