Tom Hanks says that’s not really him selling dental insurance in Instagram ads
The beloved actor claims that it's actually an AI copy of him that might be popping up on your feed
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Attention: Tom Hanks does not want you to go to the dentist. Or, if he does, he at least has no interest in telling you how to pay for it. That’s the main thing we should all take away from Hanks’ latest post on Instagram (via Variety), where he denounced an ad of some sort going around that features an AI reproduction of him selling dental insurance. “BEWARE!!,” he says, “There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it.”
Joking aside, the real takeaway of this is that The Machines have found a way to replicate one of the most beloved representatives of mankind, and they’re using it to… sell dental insurance? Or, more likely, they’re using it to sell some kind of scam posing as dental insurance, which makes sense because scams are the only thing you can really sell with AI since AI tech like this—copying the image or voice or work of a real person—is always nothing but a scam.
This, of course, is the kind of thing that striking SAG-AFTRA actors are trying to get in their new contract with the AMPTP, since it would be horrible and gross if a major studio released Dental Plan: The Movie with an AI Tom Hanks in the lead, but the fact that it’s not a movie studio doing this is proof that we all deserve some kind of AI protection.
Wouldn’t it be unnerving if you were scrolling through your feed and it was your face and your voice selling dental insurance to you? Or if your work and your words were manipulated by an AI to say or do something that you never intended and that you never agreed to? Or if you were a dental plan advertising personality, and you spent your whole life working toward being in an ad for dental plans on Instagram, and then you see these major companies throwing money at an AI Tom Hanks rather than investing in real people like you who can actually do things and make things? It’s funny to think of Tom Hanks having to tell people that he’s not randomly pitching some scam on Instagram, but AI-generated “content” like this is an enemy of culture and humanity. This shit sucks.
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My momma always said, “Life was like a AI generated ad. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
Too many fingers is what you’re going to get.
Ok person who always posts Simpsons imagery, let’s have a nice big “Lisa needs braces” for the comments section please.
Sorry I’m late.
Bullseye!
Oh, uhhh…Barney!
Lisa needs braces.
DENTAL PLAN!
Man I miss the old avclub
Chet and Colin need braces…
I’m seein’ double here. Four “Lisa needs braces” comments!
“Hi, I’m Tom Hanks. This dental insurance company has lost all credibility, so they’re borrowing some of mine!”
We gotta kill everyone advocating for this shit before it’s too late
Bonus side effect: would help alleviate the Bay Area rent crisis.
Huh, I was wondering why Tom Hanks was suddenly twenty years younger and almost completely inert except for his mouth, nose, and eyes.
Syncro-Hanx
Botox is a hell of a drug.
Tom Hanks would never play a creepy looking character with dead eyes.
HOT CHOCOLATE!!!
You raise an excellent point. Dental insurance hawking would be kids’ stuff compared to whatever pervo stuff the AI-assisted renderers could dream up. And given how computing power keeps increasing while software gets cheaper, the problem will only get worse. So yes, some type of legislation/regulation that gave consumers protection from AI abuse, while not stifling legit AI endeavors (yes, that could be a tough balancing act), is what’s called for. I hope we’re not too late since what I see points to the genie being out of the bottle and nothing serious happening to capture it.
“…whatever pervo stuff the AI-assisted renderers could dream up.”
I bank with Bank of Montreal and yesterday while calling them they asked me if I want to set up voice recognition on my account I was like “No….. that’s a very bad idea with AI”. I was stunned.
But Villains Month is over…
Tom Hanks doesn’t deserve this. He works really hard. You think it’s easy to just stop whatever you’re doing and go limp whenever Andy walks in the room?
Thats my secret, Cap…. I’m always limp.
I dunno, I always go limp when Andy is in the room. Luckily they have pills for that.
And how do we know the Tom Hanks saying he isn’t selling dental insurance isn’t the AI bot, trying to discredit dental plan enthusiast real Tom Hanks?
Wait Hanks was the precursor of COVID. This means the AI attempt at world takeover is only a few weeks away.
Dental plan!
Lisa needs braces.
Dental plan!
Lisa needs braces.
Dental plan!
Lisa needs braces.
Thanks a lot, Carl. Now I’ve lost my train of thought.
Dental plan!
Lisa needs braces.
Dental plan!
Lisa needs braces.
If we give up our dental plan…I’ll have to pay for Lisa’s braces!
He looks like a dick with ears.
I wonder what the attention seeking whore looks like…Post a pic, brave boy.
Joe Versus The Dental Plan
Joe Versus Lisa Needs Braces
Bosom Molars
ok I don’t know what I was thinking with that one.
Ah! We’re fully into the phase of new tech in which weird, shitty grifters doing their best to get their crusty hands on whatever money they can scam before the spigot turns off.I really, REALLY hate how easy it is to be a shitty grifter.
Hanks, but no Hanks.
All this press and I can’t find an actual video playback of the ad to see how absurd it looks. Does anyone have a link? Does this actually exist?
‘’ since it would be horrible and gross if a major studio released Dental Plan: The Movie with an AI Tom Hanks in the lead ‘’
That movie is already in pre-production and once both strikes are done with, it will start filming as soon as possible.
You can’t spell You Got Mail without AI.
Tom Hanks went on to say that the videos of Chet Haze selling time-shares in Boca Raton were, sadly, entirely real.
Now that you mention it, there’s no proof that Chet Hanks didn’t sell his dad’s visage to a Russian dental insurance scam.