A video made by artificial intelligence and obviously false shows French head of state Emmanuel Macron dancing with singer Taylor Swift and then kissing one of his guards.
It has been seen by thousands of people. President Macron believes that, as a consequence, “Artificial intelligence must be more regulated.”
With a questioned government, from the right, when the one who obtained the most votes after the dissolution of the National Assembly was the left and removed by Prime Minister Michel Barnier from government decision-making, Macron is not going through a good period. Those who have seen him notice him “depressed and angry.”
The last thing President Macron needs right now is “fake” videos that offer a distorted image of his private life.
The fake kiss
Macron, who is said to be despondent after his centrist side’s defeat in the snap elections he called in June, told Variety that the videos illustrated the need to regulate AI.
“Millions of people have seen” his fake kiss with the security guard, he said. He added that kissing another man was not “a bad thing in itself. But it’s not reality.”
Macron, 46, said those fake images They can harm “vulnerable people, they can plunge them into depression. It can be a form of harassment. It destabilizes people and can misinform, which can disrupt our democracies. This is something that must 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 fluid. There is a generational problem. Barnier is a social Gaullist, a 73-year-old former chancellor, belonging to the minority conservative Republican party, which only got 5 percent of the votes, he was a Brexit negotiator and has a method that Macron does not share.
Barnier does not want to fall under a vote of censure in the National Assembly. He was saved from one this week and must 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 is said to be wondering how he will complete the last three years of his term.
“They can solve it themselves,” he reportedly said when asked how ministers should address the economic crisis. A comment that led Alexandre Devecchio, editor of the editorial page of Le Figaroto compare him to an “angry teenager.” Devecchio made this comment during a program on the Public Senate, the parliamentary television channel, titled: “Macron, the depressed president?”
A list of good intentions
Macron’s intervention in Variety, on France 24, seemed designed to counter such speculation. The president was optimistica after the Paris Olympics, which are widely seen as a success in France. He said they would help boost tourism.
Between the lines, the interview highlighted his new helplessness, now that Barnier has taken charge of the day-to-day running of the country. Macron established a wish list, which included AI regulation and addressing the flight of large French media groups from the Paris stock market. But he had few concrete solutions for any of them.
Amid widespread reports that he intended to bolster his presence on the international stage given his diminished role in France, he went out of his way to pay tribute to Swift for her concerts in Paris this spring.“She is a phenomenon,” said. As well as Lady Gaga and Céline Dion, for their participation in the Olympic opening ceremony.
Regarding Artificial Intelligence, Macron said it was urgent introduce a regulation “imposing the responsibility of moderating it on the people who spread this content. “We need to create these regulations for our democracies to work.” He said he should call an international meeting on the issue in February, the AI Action Summit, which resembles an initiative organized by Rishi Sunak in Britain last year.
He also called for greater investment in AI to keep pace with the Americans, who are leading the field. He said this was “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, the commission president, last month, for example.
Breton was replaced by Macron’s former foreign minister, Stéphane Séjourné, whowho is in charge of 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.