Amy Klobuchar, who serves as the U.S. senator from Minnesota, has come out to set the record straight regarding a recent video. The video featured her badmouthing Anyone But You star Sydney Sweeney. Responding to the backlash that followed, Klobuchar noted that the clip was, in fact, a work of AI. She also petitioned for the introduction of new legislation to counter such “deepfakes.”
US Senator slams AI clip of her saying Sydney Sweeney has ‘perfect t—–‘
An artificially generated video of Senator Amy Klobuchar shaming Sydney Sweeney at a recent Senate Judiciary subcommittee over the latter’s American Eagle jeans ad went viral on the internet. Post this, the veteran politician released an official statement addressing the issue. (via New York Post)
Talking to the New York Times, Klobuchar noted, “The A.I. deepfake featured me using the phrase ‘perfect t—–s’ and lamenting that Democrats were ‘too fat to wear jeans or too ugly to go outside.’ 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.”
The video of Amy Klobuchar included a deepfake version of the Minnesota Democrat. It showed her calling out Sydney Sweeney for her controversial ad collaboration with American Eagle over new line of jeans. “If Republicans are gonna have beautiful girls with perfect t—–s in their ads, we want ads for Democrats too, you know,” the digitalized version of Klobuchar stated.
“We want ugly, fat b—–s 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 clip continued. It concluded by taking a dig at the Democratic Party with the dialogue, “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.”
In the aftermath of the incident, Klobuchar proposed an act that 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.”
