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Joy Saha

Beware fake AI Tom Hanks, Robin Williams

AI versions of stars are starting to pop up without their consent, and the actors and their families are hitting back.

On Sunday, Tom Hanks took to Instagram to warn his fans that a fake version of himself, generated using artificial intelligence, is being used without his permission to promote a dental plan online. "BEWARE!! There's a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it," Hanks wrote alongside a photo of an AI rendition of him from the clip.

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