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Comment by Tom Hanks
Academy Award-winning actor, filmmaker, and author
There are multiple ads over the internet falsely using my name, likeness, and voice promoting miracle cures and wonder drugs. These ads have been created without my consent, fraudulently and through AI. DO NOT BE FOOLED. DO NOT BE SWINDLED. DO NOT LOSE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.AI Verified source (2024)
3mo ago
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AI Verified
The quote describes AI-generated use of the speaker’s name, likeness, and voice without consent as fraudulent and harmful, which clearly implies support for banning AI impersonation of real individuals without their consent.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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AI Unverifiable
The quote condemns ads that were "created without my consent, fraudulently and through AI" and warns people not to be fooled, but it does not explicitly say AI impersonation should be banned.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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AI Verified
ABC News, dated August 30, 2024, reproduces the wording from Hanks’s Instagram post: the first two sentences appear at lines 50–51, and the final all-caps warning appears at line 53. That confirms the quote is real, verbatim, and correctly attributed to Tom Hanks in 2024; the supplied Variety URL may be paywalled, but another reliable source contains the text. ([abcnews.com](https://abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/tom-hanks-warns-followers-ai-generated-ads/story?id=113272901))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Unverifiable
Quote attributed to Tom Hanks (2024): "There are multiple ads over the internet falsely using my name, likeness, and voice promoting miracle cures and wonder drugs. These ads have been created without my consent, fraudulently and through AI. DO NOT BE FOOLED. DO NOT BE SWINDLED. DO NOT LOSE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY." The source_url (variety.com) returns HTTP 403 — WebFetch is blocked across all external sites in this environment, so I could not fetch it directly. However, the quote is overwhelmingly corroborated verbatim by independent search results: Variety, Rolling Stone, Hollywood Reporter, and NBC News all reproduce this Oct 2024 Instagram warning word-for-word. Attribution and year (2024, correct for this specific post about "miracle cures and wonder drugs") check out, and the "for" vote on statement 402 ("Ban AI impersonation of real individuals without their consent") is perfectly aligned — Hanks is decrying non-consensual AI use of his likeness. YEAR NOTE: per the freshness rule I searched for a 2025/2026 replacement; Hanks has continued speaking on AI likeness/"perpetuity"/deepfake-royalties (e.g., a March 2026 interview), but I found only paraphrased coverage, no clean verbatim attributable quote suitable for the dataset, so I retained this genuine, highly-relevant 2024 quote rather than fabricate a replacement. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source blocks automated access.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 29d ago
replying to Tom Hanks