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Amy Klobuchar Calls for New AI Laws After Sydney Sweeney Deepfake Video Goes Viral: ‘It Had Me Saying Vile Things’
"I would like to think that most people would be able to recognize it as fake, some clearly thought it was real," the senator writes.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar called on Congress to pass new, more protective legislations around the use of artificial intelligence after a vulgar deepfake video of her commenting on Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad went viral. “Today, a realistic deepfake — an AI-generated video that shows someone doing or saying something they never did — can circle the globe and land in the phones of millions while the truth is still stuck on a landline,” Klobuchar wrote in a guest essay for the New York Times published Wednesday. By the end of her essay, she shared studies about deepfakes impact others’ view of a person despite it being fake, mentioned that artificial intelligence could be used to harm social media users and called out tech companies.
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