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.
You guys are laughing right now, but as the only real celebrity on Lemmy, identity theft is not a joke! Millions of celebrities would suffer every year!
Imagine what would happen if some random Internet weirdo uses AI to impersonate me, super serious Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie, and make me say extremely silly things that I would never say in public on the internet? Would you still think impersonating a celebrity is funny?
Luckily for her, Margot Robbie has been blessed by a relatively harmless and actually kinda based Lemmy impersonater.
Or it’s actually her and no one can be sure. I still want to believe.
I’ve never seen anyone trying to impersonate me on Lemmy, but if you ever see them, could you tell them to promote my latest movie, now also available on streaming, since I’m still on strike?
🤨 hmmmmmm
I also choose to believe. As a wise man once said, on the internet, no one knows if you’re really Margot Robbie
Probably not. Sorry Margot
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Surely no one would ever do such a thing.
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make me say extremely silly things that I would never say in public on the internet?
Yeah, and I imagine it’d be even worse if they made your character do things you would never do in public either, scary stuff!
I’m going to blame AI impersonators for drinking too much every time I get a hangover from now on.
character actress Margot
My brain: Martindale
How do we know that it isn’t the real Tom Hanks promoting the dental plan, and the AI saying that he had nothing to do with it?
Because as we all know, A-list celebrities are all too smart and have too much integrity to promote random product for money!
So, just like the real Tom Hanks would never promote dental plans, if you ever see famous celebrities like Matt Damon or Kim Kardashian promote dumb things like cryptocurrency, remember, these are not real people, they are all advertisments made by AI impersonators!
“which one do I shoot?” vibes.
Wait are you telling me that the movie Uncle Bus where Tom Hanks is converted to a bus is not true, it’s AI and it’s not him. My disappointment is immesurable and my day is ruined.
This is a masterpiece that I wanted to see: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealkidflow/video/7280929600958565678
(if somebody has a better mirror other than TikTok let me know)
Tom Needs Braces!
Goodbye dental plan!
It’s wrong, but I can’t say why.
Very slight off vocal inflections that you subconsciously know aren’t him because you’ve seen the real him act in so many movies.
Plus, you knew it was a fake when you clicked it. If you hadn’t then chances are it would seem like a regular ad you’re trying to skip.
It was the speed of delivery, the tempo.
When he was younger he rushed through his jokes but landed on the punchlines, as he got older he paused everywhere for emphasis because he knows he’s funny and can sell it.
This voice was a mix with those characteristics canceled out so it sounds a bit less performed.
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I love this idea. Unfortunately, I think it’s just a slightly unnatural vocal performance. Even though AI can perfectly replicate voices tonally, they can’t truly generate the same cadence and inflections, or sometimes even get close without a good deal of human assistance. I suspect this will change over time. As with ChatGPT, we’ll be looking to AI to solve the problem of AI mimicking humans too well.
One thing is the pace is very, very consistent. Real humans don’t usually maintain that level of consistency, they’ll speed up, slow down, some words come out fast, some come out slow, etc.
Is it copyright infringement if he uses a picture of himself (generated by AI and uses his likeness without permission) without permission?
AI output can’t be copyrighted. And copyright has long had a fair use exception for criticism and news reporting which would apply.
AI Version of Tom Hanks claims to be the real Tom Hanks, tells you to shoot the fake one.
