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Tom Hanks is speaking out about artificial intelligence following the unauthorized use of an “AI version” of himself.
The “AI version” of Hanks appeared illegally in a dental advertisement.
“Beware!” the actor wrote to social media.
“There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it,” Hanks posted on Instagram. (Trending: As Fauci’s Net Worth Surpasses $11 Million, Americans Take A Closer Look At His Disturbing Lies)
Tom Hanks is warning fans about a fake AI video that is circulating with his likeness #THRNews pic.twitter.com/T0YmyUf1JJ
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 3, 2023
On The Adam Buxton Podcast Hanks said, “The first time we did a movie that had a huge amount of our own data locked in a computer, literally what we looked like, was a movie called The Polar Express,” Hanks said, referring to the 2004 animated children’s movie he starred in.
“We saw that there was going to be this ability to take 0s and 1s inside a computer and turn it into a face and a character.”
“Now, that is only grown a billion-fold since then, and we see it everywhere. And I can tell you that there is discussions going on in all of the guilds, all of the agencies and all of legal firms in order to come up with the legal ramifications of my face and my voice – and everybody else’s – being our intellectual property.” (Trending: Illegal Immigrant Deported 9 Times Commits Heinous Crime
Tom Hanks says AI could allow him to be in more movies after his death‼️👀 pic.twitter.com/uoADpofmEd
— RapTV (@Rap) May 17, 2023
“If I wanted to, I could get together and pitch a series of seven movies that would star me in them in which I would be 32 years old, from now until kingdom come,” he added.
“Anybody can now recreate themselves at any age they are by way of AI or deepfake technology. Because, look, I could be hit by a bus tomorrow, and that’s it, but my performances can go on and on and on and on, and outside the understanding that it’s been done with AI or deepfake, there will be nothing to tell you that it’s not me and me alone.”
“And it’s going to have some degree of lifelike quality. And that certainly is an artistic challenge, but it’s also a legal one.” he said.
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