A racy video of Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar viewed over a million times targeting actress Sydney Sweeney is now the subject of ongoing legislation to crack down on “deepfakes.”
Klobuchar is calling for new legislation to address these “deepfakes” after a highly realistic AI-generated video appeared to show her making sexualized statements about Sweeney’s viral American Eagle jeans ad.
Klobuchar addresses the bogus footage through an op-ed published in The New York Times after the video made the rounds online, appearing to show her speaking at a recent Senate Judiciary subcommittee meeting on data privacy.
“The A.I. deepfake featured me using the phrase ‘perfect t-tties’ and lamenting that Democrats were “too fat to wear jeans or too ugly to go outside,” Klobuchar wrote in her op-ed.
“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.”
I never thought I’d opine about Sydney Sweeney’s jeans. And that’s because I didn’t. It was AI.
Deepfakes are getting impossible to detect, especially when companies—and Congress—refuse to act. We need to give Americans control over their own images.https://t.co/QrhAbdoWZX
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) August 20, 2025
Here is a snapshot of what was said in the video (which has since been taken down):
“If Republicans are gonna have beautiful girls with perfect t-tties in their ads, we want ads for Democrats too, you know?” the deepfake version of Klobuchar said, eerily mirroring the senator’s voice and vocal style.
“We want ugly, fat bitches wearing pink wigs and long-ass fake nails being loud and twerking on top of a cop car at a Waffle House because they didn’t get extra ketchup, you know?” the video continued.
“Just because we’re the party of ugly people doesn’t mean we can’t be featured in ads, OK? And I know most of us are too fat to wear jeans or too ugly to go outside, but we want representation.”
The fake video of Klobuchar was referencing a viral American Eagle ad campaign featuring mega-popular actress Sydney Sweeney, in which she referred to her “good jeans” in a play on words.
Despite the fake video now being taken down, Klobuchar also noted how much effort and trouble it took to get to that point.
She said she reached out to various social media platforms where the video was circulating but had mixed results in getting it taken down.
TikTok took it down and Meta labeled it as AI, but the senator said X offered no help beyond suggesting she should try to get a Community Note identifying it as fake.
According to Klobuchar, the incident was motivation for a newly proposed piece of legislation dubbed the No Fakes Act, with Senate sponsorship on both sides of the aisle.
The act would “give people the right to demand that social media companies remove deepfakes of their voice and likeness, while making exceptions for speech protected by the First Amendment,” she wrote.
Klobuchar said the bill will build on the success of another piece of recently passed legislation governing AI deepfakes, the Take it Down Act. Signed into law by President Trump in May, the Act criminalized the “nonconsensual publication of intimate images, including AI-generated content” and established a process for having offending images removed.