Amy Klobuchar , Minnesota's senior U.S. senator, says someone used AI to simulate her voice, making a "vulgar and absurd" critique of the controversial American Eagle jeans ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney .

In a New York Times opinion piece published on Wednesday, she described her struggles to get the video — which she said incorporates elements from a July 30 Senate hearing — taken down after finding it on X.

"For years I have been going after the growing problem that Americans have extremely limited options to get unauthorized deepfakes taken down," Klobuchar wrote. "But this experience of sinking hours of time and resources into limiting the spread of a single video made clear just how powerless we are right now."

Klobuchar says " deepfake " videos like this are ju

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