«It had me saying vile things,» writes the senator from Minnesota.
Democratic Senator from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar recently appeared on social media in a video saying that actress Sydney Sweeney had “perfect titties” and that Democrats were “the party of ugly people.” It was a deepfake, of course, and Klobuchar never uttered those words. But the senator has now written an op-ed in the New York Times to discuss the video and is calling for new legislation against deepfakes.
“The A.I. deepfake featured me using the phrase ‘perfect titties’ and lamenting that Democrats were ‘too fat to wear jeans or too ugly to go outside.’” Klobuchar wrote in the New York Times. “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 Klobuchar was originally from a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on data privacy that had been altered to make her look like she was talking about Sweeney. A recent ad from American Eagle featuring the actress became controversial because she talked about “good genes,” to discuss denim from the company, a play on the word jeans. Critics said it was a reference to eugenics, and President Donald Trump even weighed in after he learned that she was a registered Republican, praising the actress.
