Monday, 2 October 2023
Deepfakes
Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake
Tom Hanks has warned an advert that appears to be fronted by him is in fact an artificial intelligence (AI) fake.
"There's a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me," the actor wrote on Instagram.
As AI systems have grown in power and sophistication, so have concerns about their ability to create ever more realistic virtual versions of real people - what are sometimes called deepfakes.
I'm not sure why this type of AI fake is called a deepfake. I'd have expected a more dramatic name such as a superfake, megafake or ultrafake. Maybe deepfake sounds more sinister.
At least it's a reminder of the deepfake conservatives assembled in Manchester.
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Maybe there is actually a real Conservative government working hard to improve our country, passing loads of good laws. But their communications have been hacked and we have been given deepfaked images of a little Asian pharmacist and some dull blokes from a sales conference burbling on about nothing.
Sam - there are one or two clues such as accepting that nuclear has at least some long term role, but not much else. Burbling on about nothing still seems to be the favoured approach.
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