Marsha Blackburn posts an AI video of herself performing 'Not Like Us', 13 days after her NO FAKES Act push

13 days after she asked the Senate to pass a law against AI fakes, Sen. Marsha Blackburn posted an AI video of herself.

On October 13, 2026, Blackburn’s campaign account posted a 12-second AI video that recreates Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime show, with Blackburn at the microphone and “Not Like Us” playing. She’s running for governor of Tennessee, and the caption read “Tomorrow. Ready to roll.” By October 15, the post had passed 2.1 million views.

What Marsha Blackburn’s AI ‘Not Like Us’ video shows, and how she defended it

The clip puts Blackburn in an orange-red suit on a stadium field, singing into a mic. Behind her, Rep. Tim Burchett, Sen. Bill Hagerty, state Sen. Brent Taylor and former Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs (the wrestler Kane) do the dancing, The Hill reported. Lamar himself doesn’t appear. Blackburn takes his spot.

The replies went badly. Billboard collected a long run of “AI slop” and “painfully cringe”, and said it had reached out to Lamar’s reps. Her Democratic opponent for governor answered too.

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When I say please stop using AI to support our campaign, this is what I mean.

Blackburn shrugged it off. After voting early in Brentwood on October 14, she told The Daily Wire that “there is a county commissioner that made the video and put it up, and I think Congressman [Tim] Burchett reposted it. We reposted it, and it’s a funsies.” She didn’t name the commissioner.

How Marsha Blackburn’s AI video lines up with her NO FAKES Act push

Blackburn is the lead Republican on the NO FAKES Act (S. 4591), the bill that would give every American a federal right over AI copies of their voice and likeness. Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced it on May 20, 2026, with Blackburn signed on next to him.

On September 30, she asked the Senate to pass it by unanimous consent, and Sen. Ted Cruz objected. His worry was the bill’s parody exception, and his examples were political AI videos: Spencer Pratt’s AI ads mocking Karen Bass and President Trump’s own AI posts. Blackburn answered that protection for “bona fide commentary (including political commentary)” was already in the bill.

It isn’t her only AI bill either. In March, Blackburn released a nearly 300-page AI discussion draft that says training AI on copyrighted works without permission is not fair use.

Then there’s the state she wants to run. Tennessee passed the ELVIS Act in 2024, the first US state law to protect a person’s voice and likeness from AI cloning.

The NO FAKES Act now waits for the lame duck session after the November 3 midterms. RIAA chief Mitch Glazier told Billboard that “if we can work out a couple of these last issues, I think it has a real shot” at unanimous consent. And the House version, H.R. 8915, still hadn’t moved out of committee as of early October.