Deepfake Tom Hanks dental ad insurance promotion
An advert for a dental insurance plan supposedly endorsed by actor Tom Hanks was in fact a fake image manipulated using artificial intelligence (AI). 'There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it,' Hanks warned his followers on Instagram, without naming the company or organisation behind the deepfake. The likeness of Hanks appeared to be generated from a 2014 image of the actor owned by the Los Angeles Times , according to Gizmodo . The fracas highlighted the increasing use of deepfake and synthetic media to impersonate celebrities, sometimes in scams, and the difficulty in stopping their creators. Set against strikes over the use of AI in entertainment by members of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), the incident also underscored general challenges facing the entertainment industry and performers by AI. Deepfake Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown Operator: Developer: Country: USA Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Promote insurance plan Technology: Deepfake - image; Machine learning Issue: Ethics/values; Personality rights; Transparency
- Date it happened
- 2023-10-01
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