Theodore Roosevelt, president, soldier, hunter, author and conservationist, was born on this day in 1858. 

Those of us who enjoy our days afield, regardless of pursuit, owe the 26th president of the United States a debt of gratitude.

Said Teddy Roosevelt, "Of all the questions that can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us, and training them into a better race to inhabit the land and pass it on."

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Carved into the granite of the American Natural History Museum in New York City, adjacent to the park that bears his name, are these words describing this true champion of conservation: "Ranchman, Scholar, Explorer, Scientist, Conservationist, Naturalist, Statesman, Author, Historian, Humanitarian, Soldier, Patriot."

Of all the insightful quotes from his writing, speeches and conversations, my favorite is one about him. 

After Roosevelt passed away in his sleep on Jan. 6, 1919, Thomas R. Marshall, then the sitting vice president, commented, "Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight."

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"He was born in New York City in 1858 into a wealthy family, [but] struggled against ill health — and in his triumph became an advocate of the strenuous life," reports WhiteHouse.gov in its report on the 26th president. 

It cited "The Presidents of the United States of America" by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey. 

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His first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, as well as his mother, died on the same day in 1884 — launching Teddy Roosevelt onto a path that would reshape both his personal destiny and that of the nation. 

"Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory," writes WhiteHouse.gov. 

"There he mastered his sorrow as he lived in the saddle, driving cattle, hunting big game — he even captured an outlaw." 

During a visit to London, he married Edith Carow in Dec. 1886.

He galloped into military lore on July 1, 1898, leading the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan Hill during the U.S.'s swift victory in the Spanish-American War.

"Among Theodore Roosevelt's many lifetime accomplishments, few capture the imagination as easily as his military service as a 'Rough Rider,'" reports the National Park Service (NPS).

"He led a series of charges up Kettle Hill toward San Juan Heights on his horse, Texas, while the Rough Riders followed on foot. He rode up and down the hill encouraging his men with the orders to ‘March!' He killed one Spaniard with a revolver salvaged from the Maine. Other regiments continued alongside him, and the American flag was raised over San Juan Heights."

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He called the victory the "great day of my life," writes the NPS. 

Roosevelt served as New York City's top cop from 1895 to 1897. 

He then served as governor of New York from Jan.1, 1899, to Dec. 31, 1900.

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley tapped Roosevelt as his running mate in the 1900 campaign. 

And Roosevelt became the youngest president in U.S. history at just 42 years old amid tragedy — when McKinley was assassinated on Sept. 14, 1901.

"As president, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none," reports WhiteHouse.gov. 

He served nearly two full terms in office.

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He then ran for a non-consecutive third term in 1912 as head of the Progressive Party, following a split with the GOP. 

He outgained sitting president William Howard Taft in the election but lost the White House to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

He passed away in January 1919 at age 60. 

Roosevelt's image was chiseled into the American landscape he loved as one of four presidents immortalized on Mount Rushmore — alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.

Fox News Digital staff contributed reporting. 

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As artificial intelligence continues to gain popularity with individuals and companies, more stars are speaking out about its use.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Cher expressed her fears about the technology after she heard someone use her voice to cover a song by Madonna.

"Someone did me doing a Madonna song, and it was kind of shocking," she said. 

"They didn’t have it down perfectly. But also, I’ve spent my entire life trying to be myself, and now these a--holes are going to go take it? And they’ll do my acting, and they’ll do my singing? It’s just, it’s out of control."

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She continued, "I’m telling you, if you work forever to become somebody — and I’m not talking about somebody in the famous, money part — but an artist, and then someone just takes it from you, it seems like it should be illegal."

Marva Bailer, an AI expert, told Fox News Digital that stars do have legal recourse when it comes to unauthorized use of their likeness or voice.

"The laws that exist in place are already – you need permission to use someone's likeness, and a likeness could be their song, their voice, their image or performance. Those laws exist," she said. 

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"But what we're seeing now is with the use of AI, the amount of access of tools to the general public to create these real images or performances is now really available. And before it wasn't, you had to have knowledge and use of these more complicated editing tools. Now we can take our phone, and we can wipe somebody out of a picture with one swipe. So what's happening now is it's just really the access. So the laws do exist, but you need to find what is being done wrong to that image and likeness." 

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Bailer added the onus is on the performer to prove they were not involved in the creation of the project in the first place, but it can be hard to find and identify the situation.

Some may find Cher’s concerns about the technology ironic, as her Grammy-winning song "Believe," released in 1998, is credited with the first use of autotune. 

Cher, in her interview with the AP, pointed out that it was called a "pitch machine" at the time, and she had argued with producer Mark Taylor about using the technology.

"It started and it was like, ‘Oh my God, this is the best thing ever.’ And I thought, ‘You don’t even know it’s me. This is the best thing ever.’ And then we high-fived," she recalled.

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Bailer notes Cher’s computer-altered voice on the song was clearly planned.

"That is the choice of the artist for someone to now take their voice or take their performance and make it into something that they did not authorize is absolutely not the same thing."

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Selena Gomez also recently declared the use of her voice in an AI-generated cover version of a song "scary."

A social media account created a version of the 2016 song "Starboy" by her ex-boyfriend, singer The Weeknd, using her voice.

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The clip featured the fake Gomez voice singing the song’s pre-chorus, "House so empty, need a centerpiece / Twenty racks a table, cut from ebony / Cut that ivory into skinny pieces / Then she clean it with her face, man, I love my baby, ah / You talkin' money, need a hearin' aid / You talkin' 'bout me, I don't see the shade / Switch up my style, I take any lane / I switch up my cup, I kill any pain." 

The caption on the video translated from Turkish read, "How did you find Selena’s viral cover of starboy voiced with artificial intelligence?"

In the comments on the post, Gomez responded, simply writing, "Scary."

Bailer explains part of the concern for an artist when it comes to random AI-generated songs popping up is distraction from their actual work.

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In Gomez’s case, she released her latest song, "Single Soon," in August, two months after the AI fake of "Starboy."

"What's really concerning right now in the current Selena Gomez situation is she as an artist, is trying to launch a new song. And we want the attention on the new song and the performance. We don't want it on all this noise in the background. And that's where it gets really challenging, where a publicist has a whole plan scenario, and then these bad actors are coming in, and they're really interrupting that flow and misguiding the attention of the fans," Bailer explained.

However, those same fans can play a role in protecting their favorite artists.

Gomez has 420 million Instagram followers and is in the top 20 of those followed on X, giving her a vast number of eyes on anything related to her, authorized or not.

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"Fans now have the opportunity to find people that are causing harm to their stars," Bailer said. "Because at the end of the day, when someone is using AI or computer graphics to use a performance that is not authorized, the fans are going to know, and they're going to be the first ones to call foul on this. And so it really has a balance of there's lots of people trying to now harm the artists in a large scale. But then on the other side, you have the fans that are really protecting these artists because these artists are family to them."

Coincidentally, The Weeknd had his voice and style, along with rapper Drake, mimicked by AI earlier this year.

In April, a song titled "Heart on my Sleeve" went viral on TikTok, and the lyrics were focused on Gomez. 

The creator of the song goes by @GhostWriter on TikTok and has shared multiple videos on the account using the new song.

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The original video announcing the song currently has 10 million views. Three other videos shared by @GhostWriter each have just over a million views.

In Bailer’s view, Gomez keeps popping up in these scenarios due to her popularity.

"What people are doing is they're creating these stories using music, and they're putting innuendos in these stories to get a reaction," she said. "And then they have a reaction back in this kind of back-and-forth. And they're doing it to get attention. And it's bad attention."

That attention can also apply to anyone not in the world of celebrity.

Bailer explains that people are used to memes, photoshopped images and other creations, but there is a downside. 

"Where it gets challenging is when it's then used as something where monetary involvement is involved, or it's being used to actually make decisions and present itself as a person of authority," she said. "And that's not okay. So we really, as the general public, need to be on the lookout for misguided actors and keep ourselves safe."