Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni demands €100,000 in damages for deepfake videos posted on an adult website. Learn about the legal proceedings and the implications of this case.
According to her team’s indictment, the recordings have received millions of views on the website since they were posted.
According to the BBC, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is requesting €100,000 (about Rs. 90.6 lakh) in damages after a handful of her deeply faked pornographic videos were posted on an American adult website.
According to her team’s indictment, the recordings have received millions of views on the website since they were posted.
According to the article, two men—a 40-year-old guy who is thought to be the producer and his 73-year-old father—are being looked into for the crime. They were located using the mobile device that was used to submit the clips.
They face the possibility of a jail term and a criminal conviction in Italy if found guilty of slander, according to the BBC.
According to the article, the 47-year-old politician—who is the first woman to hold the position of prime minister in Italy—will testify before a court on July 2 in the city of Sassari in northwest Italy. Before she was appointed prime minister in 2020, the videos were purportedly uploaded.
According to her legal team, the intended message to “send a message to women who are victims of this kind of abuse of power not to be afraid to press charges” is behind the “symbolic” demand for monetary compensation. They also said that the money would be sent to a nonprofit that supports women who have been abused by men if Meloni’s side wins the lawsuit.
A deepfake video is a clip that has been digitally altered to convincingly replace one person’s image with another. These movies are now often used on adult websites and other platforms, particularly with the development of AI and similar technologies.