Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was recently featured in a video that is not her, but a creation of artificial intelligence. In the video, she is discussing the recent, viral Sydney Sweeney ad for jeans.
Whoever made the AI video has a great sense of humor. Avoid drinking anything as you read the rest of this.
From the New York Post:
Sen. Klobuchar sets record straight: She never said Sydney Sweeney had ‘perfect t-tties’ or that Dems were ‘too ugly to go outside’Sen. Amy Klobuchar is calling for new legislation to address “deepfakes” after a highly realistic AI-generated video that appeared to show her making outrageous statements about Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad went viral.The Minnesota Democrat took to the opinion page of the New York Times Wednesday to clear the air after the video made the rounds online, appearing to show her speaking at a recent Senate Judiciary subcommittee meeting on data privacy.In her op-ed, Klobuchar decried the bogus footage, which she noted was viewed online more than a million times.“The A.I. deepfake featured me using the phrase ‘perfect t-tties’ and lamenting that Democrats were “too fat to wear jeans or too ugly to go outside,” the real Sen. Klobuchar wrote.“Though I could immediately tell that someone used footage from the hearing to make a deepfake, there was no getting around the fact that it looked and sounded very real.”“If Republicans are gonna have beautiful girls with perfect t-tties in their ads, we want ads for Democrats too, you know?” the deepfake version of Klobuchar said, eerily mirroring the senator’s voice and vocal style.“We want ugly, fat bitches wearing pink wigs and long-ass fake nails being loud and twerking on top of a cop car at a Waffle House because they didn’t get extra ketchup, you know?” the video continued.“Just because we’re the party of ugly people doesn’t mean we can’t be featured in ads, OK? And I know most of us are too fat to wear jeans or too ugly to go outside, but we want representation.”
Here’s the video:
Klobuchar commented on Twitter/X.
She is responding with legislation.
From The Hill:
Klobuchar noted that her experience “does not in any way represent the gravest threat posed by deepfakes” and pointed to other recent examples, including when someone used AI to pretend to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio and contacted various high-level government officials.President Trump in May signed into law a bill that Klobuchar pushed for, cracking down on so-called deepfake revenge porn — or sexually explicit AI images and videos that are posted without the victim’s consent.Klobuchar is calling now for Congress to pass her bipartisan No Fakes Act, which “would give people the right to demand that social media companies remove deepfakes of their voice and likeness, while making exceptions for speech protected by the First Amendment,” she said.“In the United States, and within the bounds of our Constitution, we must put in place common-sense safeguards for artificial intelligence. They must at least include labeling requirements for content that is substantially generated by A.I.,” she wrote in the op-ed.
We live in truly amazing times.
Featured image via Twitter/X video.
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