First Woman Melania Trump introduced the discharge of an AI-narrated model of her memoir Thursday, saying on X that it’s “narrated totally utilizing synthetic intelligence in my very own voice.”
Dubbing it a “NEW ERA,” Trump added: “Let the way forward for publishing start.”
Trump launched her memoir in October 2024, writing ahead of its release that writing it “has been a deeply and reflective journey for me.” The AI-generated audio e-book is now accessible for buy.
“Melania: The Audiobook is narrated utilizing synthetic intelligence audio expertise,” a statementposted to the primary girl’s private web site says. “The narrator is an AI-generated reproduction of Melania Trump’s voice, created below Mrs. Trump’s path and supervision.”
Synthetic intelligence and the usage of deepfake expertise has turn into a cornerstone of the primary girl’s portfolio throughout President Donald Trump’s second time period in workplace – in a Rose Backyard signing ceremony for the “Take It Down” Act, which she advocated for and championed, Melania Trump acknowledged the alternatives and threats that AI expertise pose.
“Synthetic intelligence and social media are the digital sweet for the following technology: candy, addictive and engineered to have an effect on the cognitive growth of our youngsters,” she mentioned in remarks earlier than the signing. “However in contrast to sugar, these new applied sciences may be weaponized, form beliefs and, sadly, have an effect on feelings and even be lethal.”
Oren Etzioni, professor emeritus in laptop science and engineering on the College of Washington and former CEO of the Allen Institute for Synthetic Intelligence, advised CNN Thursday it was unlikely the AI-narrated memoir posed a threat to the primary girl’s digital id or an moral quandary given her public profile and participation within the undertaking.
“It’s necessary to tell apart between nonconsensual deepfakes and consensual ones. After all, the First Woman has the rights to her personal voice, and this AI-narrated memoir is an indication of many self-fakes to come back,” he mentioned. “All celebrities are topic to the danger of nonconsensual deepfakes, however doing this doesn’t enhance the danger of her voice being ‘hijacked.’ All that’s wanted for a deepfake is a pattern of her voice, and there may be loads of that accessible.”
The AI-narrated memoir is just not the primary foray into the digital area for the primary girl. In 2021, Trump announced the sale of an NFT, or non-fungible token, titled “Melania’s Imaginative and prescient” as her first public endeavor after leaving workplace.
CNN has reached out to the primary girl’s White Home workplace and private workplace for remark.
