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In 2024, Meloni initiated a civil lawsuit against a man from Sardinia accused of creating and publishing pornographic deepfakes using her face on the Internet.
Melonie wants to register her vote as a trademark - Reuters
Italian Prime Minister George Meloni has applied to the European Union Intellectual Property Office to register her vote as a trademark. Thus, it is trying to deal with deepfakes created with the help of artificial intelligence, ahead of next year's general election in the country. The trademark application was filed on Monday. A four-second recording was added to it, in which the Prime…
According to Ukrinform, this is reported by Reuters.
As it became known today, Italian Prime Minister George Meloni has applied to the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for the registration of her vote as a trademark.
It is noted that this step is aimed at protecting against deepfakes created with the help of artificial intelligence.
The application, dated October 5 (posted on the EUIPO website and confirmed by the premier's office), contains a four-second audio recording in which she repeats the phrase “I am George Maloney” twice in Italian.
In recent years, manipulative images of Melonie have been repeatedly distributed on the Internet, which were sometimes passed off as real; among them, in particular, was a photo of her sitting on a bed in underwear.
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