Actor Tom Hanks warns of ad with AI imposter

CBS talk show co-host Gayle King and actor Tom Hanks issued a warning to viewers about advertisements that featured fakes created by artificial intelligence.

Tom Hanks warns AI imposter: In a post on Instagram, Hanks urged users to “beware,” apparently displaying a duplicate of an unlicensed digital representation of himself.

There is a video floating around that features an AI version of me marketing some dentistry plan. I’m not involved in it at all.

Since the Academy Award-winning actor shared it with his 9.5 million Instagram followers on Sunday, the post has received more than 111,700 “likes.”

King, a co-host of the CBS Mornings chat show, released what she claimed to be a fake video clip of her luring viewers to click on a link to discover her weight loss “secret.”

In her Instagram post, King stated, “I have nothing to do with this company.

“I’ve never used or heard of this product! Please don’t fall for these AI videos’ deception.

One of the concerns discussed during a recent writers’ strike that paralyzed Hollywood until a recent preliminary agreement was the need for safeguards against the use of artificial intelligence to imitate film ability.

There is still no end in sight to the Hollywood actors’ prolonged strike.

Late last year, ChatGPT, a generative AI programme, made headlines for its capacity to produce essays, poetry, and dialogues from the shortest inputs.

As AI models’ ability to create digital imagery on demand has increased, there is growing concern that the technology may be exploite to produce “deep fake” images and movies that deceive viewers into believing they are real.

Three tech giants, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, are among those competing to harness the opportunities presented by generative AI while trying to mitigate risks such as the technology’s potential for malicious purposes like spreading false information and cybercrime.