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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.
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(2024)
2mo ago
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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
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