Legendary actor Tom Hanks and Zelda Williams, daughter of the late Robin Williams, joined the chorus of voices sounding the alarm about the proliferation of AI deepfakes. Hanks called out the apparent publication of an AI-generated video of the Castaway and Saving Private Ryan star promoting, of all things, a dental plan.

“Beware! There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me,” Hanks wrote on Instagram on Sunday. “I have nothing to do with it.”

Hanks, who most recently starred in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, is only the latest celebrity to have an AI-generated deepfake of his likeness surface in the last week. On Sunday, Zelda Williams posted a lengthy Instagram post decrying the use of AI to recreate her father’s voice.

“I’ve already heard AI used to get his ‘voice’ to say whatever people want, and while I find it personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings,” Williams wrote. “Living actors deserve a chance to create characters with their choices, to voice cartoons, to put their human effort and time into the pursuit of performance.”

“These recreations are, at the

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