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Tom Hanks Warns Fans About ‘AI Version of Me’ Promoting Dental Plan: ‘I Have Nothing to Do With It’ (variety.com)
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Tom Hanks Warns Fans About ‘AI Version of Me’ Promoting Dental Plan: ‘I Have Nothing to Do With It’::Tom Hanks shared a computer-generated image of himself on Instagram, warning his followers about an 'AI version of me' promoting a dental plan.

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 199 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plot twist: the ad is the real Tom Hanks, and the version calling it fake is an AI created by a rival dental plan.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 96 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Begun, the clone wars, have.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And so it begins.

[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How does this end?

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

In the fires of Mordor, or the bottomless pit of Z’ha’dum, depending on your interpretation of the starting point. Either way, it’s pretty dramatic.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup, I botched the quote. Whoops.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

No, you were close, and it fit.

Never apologize for b5.

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