A video made with Artificial Intelligence unleashes the fury of Emmanuel Macron, who calls for more regulations

2024-10-10 18:01:00

A video made by artificial intelligence and obviously fake shows French head of state Emmanuel Macron dancing with singer Taylor Swift and then kiss one of his guards.

It was seen by thousands of people. President Macron believes that, as a result, “AI needs to be more regulated.”

With a government questioned, by the right, when the one that obtained the most votes after the dissolution of the National Assembly was the left and removed by Prime Minister Michel Barnier from government decisions, Macron is not going through a good period . Those who have seen him note him as “depressed and angry”.

The last thing President Macron needs right now are “fake” videos that offer a distorted image of his private life.

The fake kiss

Macron, who is said to be disheartened after his centrist party’s defeat in early elections called in June, told Variety that the videos illustrate the need to regulate artificial intelligence.

“Millions of people have seen” his fake kiss with the security guard, he said. She added that kissing another man was “not a bad thing in itself. But it’s not reality.”

Macron, 46, said those images were fake They can harm “vulnerable people, they can make them fall into depression. It can be a form of harassment. It destabilizes people and can misinform, which can destroy our democracies. This is something that needs to be regulated,” he assured.

His comments came amid rumors that he himself is depressed, following the election results. The bond between him and Barnier, his new prime minister, is not smooth. There is a generational problem. Barnier is a social Gaullist, a 73-year-old former chancellor, belonging to the minority conservative Republican Party, which obtained only 5% of the votes, was a Brexit negotiator and has a method that Macron does not share.

Barnier does not want to suffer a vote of censure in the National Assembly. He saved himself from one this week and has to present his budget, in a France in crisis and with a huge deficit. Their strategy is to remove Macron from the internal decision-making circuit, with the result that the once hyperactive president wonders how he will complete the last three years of his term.

French President Emmanuel Macron with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodimir Zelelensky in Paris. AP photo

“They can solve it themselves,” he was quoted as saying when asked how ministers should tackle the economic crisis. A comment brought by Alexandre Devecchio, director of the editorial page of Le Figaroto compare him to an “angry teenager”. Devecchio commented thus during a program on Senato Pubblico, parliamentary television, entitled: “Macron, the depressed president?”

A list of good intentions

Macron’s speech in Variety, on France 24, seemed designed to counter such speculation. The president was optimisticuntil after the Paris Olympics, which in France are widely seen as a success. He said they would help revive tourism.

Between the lines, the interview highlights his new impotence, now that Barnier has taken over the day-to-day management of the country. Macron has drawn up a wish list, which included the regulation of AI and address the flight of large French media groups from the Paris Stock Exchange. But he had few concrete solutions for any of them.

Amid widespread rumors that she intended to strengthen her presence on the international stage given her reduced role in France, she went out of her way to pay homage to Swift for her concerts in Paris this spring.“She is a phenomenon” he said. As well as Lady Gaga and Céline Dion, for their participation in the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

As for artificial intelligence, Macron said it is urgent introduce a regulation “imposing the responsibility to moderate it on the people who spread this content. “We need to create these norms for our democracies to function.” He said he is expected to convene an international meeting on the issue in February, the AI ​​Action Summit, reminiscent of an initiative organized by Rishi Sunak in Britain last year.

He also called for more investment in artificial intelligence to keep up with the Americans, who are leading the field. He said it was so “one of my European battles”, underlining his plan to devote time and energy to EU reform.

However, observers point out that Macron’s internal problems have weakened him in Brussels. Thierry Breton, the former French EU commissioner who held the internal market portfolio, resigned after a dispute with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the Commission, last month, for example.

Breton was replaced by Macron’s former foreign minister, Stéphane Séjournéwhich is responsible for prosperity and industrial strategy.

Bernard Guetta, an MEP from Macron’s centrist camp, told HuffPost that the change “means that the president does not feel strong enough to resist the new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.