Comment by Amy Klobuchar

So AI-enabled scams have become far too common. We know that. It takes only a few seconds of audio to clone a voice. Criminals can pull the audio sample and personal backstory from public sources. Just last week, the FBI was forced to put out an alert about scams using AI-cloned voices of FBI agents and officials asking people for sensitive payment information. Jamie Lee Curtis was forced to make a public appeal to Mark Zuckerberg to take down an unauthorized deepfake ad that included her digital replica endorsing a dental product. While Meta removed the ad after her direct outreach, most people don't have that kind of influence. We also need rules of the road to ensure that AI technologies empower artists and creators and not undermine them. Art just doesn't entertain us. It is something that uplifts us and brings us together. When I recently met with Cory Wong, a Grammy-nominated artist from Minnesota, he talked about how unauthorized digital replicas threaten artists' livelihoods and undermine their ability to create art. So this is not just a personal issue; it is also an economic issue. One of the reasons our country, one of our best exports to the world is music and movies. When you look at the numbers and how we have been able to captivate people around the world, that is going to go away if people can just copy everything that we do. And one of the keys to our success as a Nation in innovation has been the fact--and Senator Coons does a lot of work in this area. We have been able to respect copyrights and patents and people own the rights to their own products. So that is why this NO FAKES Act is so important. It protects people from having their voice and likeness replicated using AI without their permission, all within the framework of the Constitution. And it protects everybody because everyone should have a right to privacy.