Deepfake celebrities begin shilling products on social media, causing alarm::Hanks and other celebrities have recently become targets of AI-powered ad scams.

  • serial_crusher@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    1 year ago

    I guess if you’re stupid enough to buy a dental plan based on Tom Hanks’s recommendation, you’re also dumb enough to think Tom Hanks still looks that young.

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    1 year ago

    Did anyone ever think that celebrities that appeared in advertisements actually used or liked the products they are paid to promote?

    This seems like false outrage.

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      1 year ago

      I think the issue is more that people think something is legitimate, and when they go to purchase it or something they get their identity stolen

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        1 year ago

        The celebrities may pay lip service to that, but really they’re concerned about unlicensed use of their image.

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    1 year ago

    Been going on for years already,… They only noticed this now? 😅

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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The next day, CBS anchor Gayle King warned of a similar scheme using her likeness to sell a weight-loss product.

    Also on Monday, YouTube celebrity MrBeast posted on social media network X about a similar scam that features a modified video of him with manipulated speech and lip movements promoting a fraudulent iPhone 15 giveaway.

    As we’ve warned, convincing AI deepfakes are an increasingly pressing issue that may undermine shared trust and threaten the reliability of communications technologies by casting doubt on someone’s identity.

    Currently, companies like Google and OpenAI have plans to watermark AI-generated content and add metadata to track provenance.

    Meanwhile, social media networks will likely need to step up moderation efforts, reacting quickly when suspicious content is flagged by users.

    Almost a year later, with technology advancing rapidly, a small taste of that chaos is arguably descending upon us, and our advice could just as easily be applied to video and photos.


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    1 year ago

    These celebrities should be making $60,000 to $150,000 like the rest of us anyways. What the hell do they produce

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      1 year ago

      Many actors make that, or much less. The big names put asses in seats though. No one is paying money to watch my loser brother in law pretending to be stranded on an island yelling at volleyballs.