A virtual woman will comment on the activities of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry (video)
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has appointed a digital identity to inform the work of the ministry.
For the first time in its history, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has created a digital person using artificial intelligence technologies who will officially comment on consular information for the mass media. This was announced by the Foreign Ministry on 1 May.
Viktoriya Shi is based on a real person, Ukrainian singer Rosalie Nombre, who agreed to act as a prototype.
It is important to note that the consular representative and her real prototype are two different persons, and only the digital person Victoria Shi makes official comments on behalf of the consular service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," the Ministry said.
The name symbolises our main goal - Ukraine's victory, while the surname symbolises artificial intelligence.
Victoria Shi's comments will be posted on the official resources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, website and pages in social networks, as well as transmitted to journalists.
Using an artificial intelligence-generated digital face for consular commentary is, first of all, saving time and resources of the MFA. Real diplomats will be able to be more efficient and focus on other tasks to help citizens," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
The minister noted that the use of artificial intelligence in the work of the Foreign Ministry is not a whim, but a wartime requirement.
The Foreign Ministry has envisaged several levels of protection of Victoria Shea from digital fakes. At each video of the representative there is a QR code, which leads to the text version of the same commentary at the official page of the MFA.
A competition to fill the vacancy has already been organised after the end of the term of representative Oleg Nikolenko's tenure.