Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad Deepfake Drags US Senator (Klobuchar) Into AI Scandal
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.”
An artificially generated video of Senator Amy Klobuchar shaming Sydney Sweeney at a recent Senate Judiciary subcommittee went viral. It was about the latter’s American Eagle jeans ad. 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.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sydney-sweeney-jeans-ad-deepfake-195328946.html
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