Ukraine has a new and a special spokesman. Ukraine’s foreign ministry declared on Wednesday, May 1st that an AI-generated spokeswoman will be the one to give comments on the consular cases. It will interpret texts that have not been yet put down by humans.
“For the first time in history, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine made a digital personality using artificial intelligence technologies which is the first time in history the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine created a digital personality using artificial intelligence technologies to officially comment on consular information for the media,” the institution said.
Victoria Shi, the embodiment of the nation’s “victory” is the most prominent achievement of the country.
This avatar is named Victoria Shi, which is a name that connects her country’s “victory” in the Russian invasion war and a surname that is just a short word “AI” in Ukrainian.
I am a digital person, so the text that you hear has not been read by a real person. It was created by artificial intelligence, which is the new spokeswoman who has the features of a young woman of mixed race, said in her first YouTube video.
Victoria Shi copied her appearance from the Ukrainian singer and influencer, Rosalie Nombre, a former contestant of The Bachelor, an Ukrainian reality show, who was born in the city of Donetsk, which is the Russian-occupied east.
A QR code as a proof of the realness of videos.
The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, nevertheless, informed AFP that the press releases “would be written and verified by real people”. “Artificial intelligence only assists us in creating the visually oriented part,” he said. His future statements will be published online and hence, be available to journalists.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it would not replace its official spokesperson, who is very real, and would only handle consular affairs. The decision of having an AI-created spokeswoman is supposed to “save time and resources for the ministry,” Dmytro Kuleba, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, said. “Truly, diplomats will be able to work effectively and will be able to concentrate on other tasks,” he emphasized.
The ministry told that it had taken the steps to stop the circulation of the false theories by its spokeswoman, for example, a QR code to certify the videos’ authenticity.
