Sen. Amy Klobuchar is calling for new laws to address “deepfakes” after a very realistic AI-generated video that appears to be making an outrageous statement about Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle Jeans ads.
The Minnesota Democrat cleared the air by visiting the New York Times opinion page Wednesday after the video ran a round online, and it appeared she was speaking at a recent Senate Judiciary Subcommittee meeting on Data Privacy.
For her manipulation, Klobuchar denounced the fake footage.
“AI's Deepfark featured me using the phrase “perfect T-Tties,” lamenting Democrats “are too fat to wear jeans or too ugh to go outside.”
“I could quickly say that someone had made a Deep Fark using footage from the hearing, but I didn't get around the fact that it looked very realistic.”
“If Republicans have beautiful girls with perfect T-tties in their ads, we also want Democrat ads, do you know?” Klobuchar's Deepfake version said, eeriely reflecting the senator's voice and vocal style.
“We want to have a loud twist on the ugly fat bitch in a pink wig and long-standing fake nails on a cop's car at Waffle House. The video continued.
“Just because we are a party of ugly people doesn’t mean we can’t feature in advertising.
The Bizarro version of Klobuchar's Fake-Out Video referenced the controversial American Eagle Ad campaign featuring IT girl Sydney Sweeney.
The ad caused an epic meltdown on the left, with Tiktocker slamming the Panny Commercial as “Nazi propaganda.”
Klobuchar said he reached out to the various social media platforms where the video is circulating, but discontinuing it had mixed results. Tiktok defeated it, and Meta labeled it AI, but the senator said he offered no help other than suggesting that X try to get a community note identifying it as fake.
Klobuchar said the entire episode was the motivation for a newly proposed law called the No Fakes Act, with Senate sponsorships serving as sponsorships on both sides of the aisle.
The law “gives people the right to demand that social media companies remove deepfakes of their voices and likenesses while creating speech exceptions protected by the initial amendment,” she wrote.
Klobuchar said the bill will be built on the success of another recently passed part that governs the AI deepfake, the Take It Down Act. The law, signed into law by President Trump in May, established a process for deleting “nonconsensual publication of intimate images containing AI-generated content” and criminalised the process of removing violation images.
Co-sponsors for the new bill include Chris Coons (D-De.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Thom Tillis (RN.C.), Klobuchar said.
“The internet has an endless appetite for flashy, controversial content that blows out rage. Those who make these videos won't stop in Sydney Sweeney jeans.”
