The Oscar-winning actor has long been a critic of the use of AI in the entertainment industry, with the 2004 movie The Polar Express marking the first time that his digital likeness was fed into a computer.
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00:00 Tom Hanks is another actor who has fallen victim to AI.
00:03 Hanks posted on Instagram warning his fans
00:05 that there is a video promoting some dental plan
00:07 with an AI version of him.
00:09 He told everyone he has nothing to do with it
00:10 and has been a long critic of the use of AI
00:13 in the film and TV industry.
00:14 On the Adam Buxton podcast in May,
00:16 Hanks said he could be hit by a bus tomorrow,
00:18 but performances can go on and on and on and on.
00:20 And he noted that outside of someone understanding AI
00:23 and deep fakes, there will be nothing to tell the audience
00:25 that it isn't actually Hanks himself.
00:27 Hanks said, "We saw this coming
00:28 "and we saw there was going to be the ability
00:30 "to take zeros and ones inside a computer
00:32 "and turn them into a face and a character."