Minnesota U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D) spoke at Minneapolis' Fine Line Cafe Tuesday about a bipartisan bill called the 'No Fakes Act' that helps protect the voice and visual likenesses of individuals.
The bill is designed to hold individuals or companies liable for promoting AI-generated replicas of an artist created without their consent.
"You have to have laws in place to protect intellectual property," Klobuchar declared.
The bill is a joint effort by both parties.
"We have kept this bipartisan from the very beginning," she adds. "And made it very clear that this is not OK. There have been a whole raft of examples of people having their songs or voices stolen."
Klobuchar has been involved in a number of Senate proposals to help protect elections and artists from the emergence of AI.
"If AI with no rules is allowed to just copy people's voices and put them out there, they will lose that economic engine and we will lose the economic engine of invention," says Klobuchar. "So that's why we have this legislation, to protect property rights."
They're also working on a separate bill that coincides with the 'No Fake Act,' called the 'Take It Down Act' that requires perpetrators to remove the content within a certain period of time or face a stiff penalty.