Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) addressed the deepfake video that went viral last month of the senator’s likeness offering a “vulgar and absurd critique” of actress Sydney Sweeney’s “great jeans” ad campaign.

In a New York Times op-ed, the moderate Democrat called on Congress to pass legislation to protect Americans from the harms of deepfakes, saying the issue requires urgent action amid the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

“I learned that lesson in a visceral way over the last month when a fake video of me — opining on, of all things, the actress Sydney Sweeney’s jeans — went viral,” she wrote in the op-ed.

Klobuchar said after she co-led a hearing on data privacy last month, she noticed “a clip of me from that hearing circulating widely on X, to the tune of more

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