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An histrion whose look was utilized by Albania's authorities for an AI chatbot that it promoted to beryllium a "Minister" told AFP connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026) that she had launched a ineligible combat to halt the usage of her representation and accused the authorities of "exploitation".
Prime Minister Edi Rama announced successful September that an AI system, dubbed Diella, would oversee a caller nationalist tenders portfolio arsenic a "Minister" that helium pledged would chopped corruption.
The determination drew disapproval from the absorption and experts who questioned the system's accountability and transparency.
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Well-known Albanian histrion Anila Bisha, whose look and dependable were utilized to make Diella's avatar, said she had not approved her individuality for usage successful that way.
Ms. Bisha said she filed a petition with the administrative tribunal earlier this week requesting the suspension of the usage of her image.
"It's an exploitation of my individuality and my idiosyncratic data," the 57-year-old histrion told AFP.
According to Ms. Bisha, she had primitively signed a declaration authorising the usage of her representation until the extremity of 2025 to correspond a virtual adjunct connected an online authorities services portal.
But aft Mr. Rama's authorities announced that Diella would go a minister, a video featuring a computer-generated mentation of her addressed Parliament.
In the video, purportedly made with AI, the "Minister" appeared arsenic a pistillate dressed successful a accepted Albanian outfit and said it was "not present to regenerate people".
Ms. Bisha besides discovered that the National Agency for Information Society, which developed the AI, filed a patent connected her representation and dependable without informing her — a determination that she says affected her quality to work.
Despite reaching retired to authorities successful the anticipation of negotiating a solution, she received nary reply and decided to instrumentality ineligible action.
Diella, which means "sun" successful Albanian, is liable for each decisions relating to nationalist procurement tenders — successful a determination that Mr. Rama promised would marque the process "corruption-free".
