Tom Hanks has issued a “public service announcement” from his official Instagram account to make clear that he’s not making an attempt to promote any medication.

On Thursday, Aug. 29, the Oscar winner, 68, shared the message after it got here to gentle that there have been adverts “falsely using [his] name, likeness, and voice to promote miracle cures and wonder drugs.”

“These ads have been created without my consent, fraudulently, and through AI,” Hanks wrote, with out naming particular scams. “I have nothing to do with these posts or the products and treatments, or the spokespeople touting these cures.”

The two-time Academy Award winner added that whereas he does have sort 2 diabetes, he solely works with a “board-certified doctor regarding treatment.”

“DO NOT BE FOOLED. DO NOT BE SWINDLED. DO NOT LOSE YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY,” Hanks concluded, signing off together with his title on the put up he captioned, “EXTRA! EXTRA!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!”

This isn’t the primary time Hanks has spoken out towards artificial-intelligence variations of his likeness getting used with out his permission. Back in October 2023, he warned his followers on Instagram a couple of promotional video for a dental plan utilizing a computer-generated picture of him, stating, “BEWARE!!”

“There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it,” he wrote over a photograph of his AI-generated self.

The Forrest Gump actor had beforehand addressed the rising use of AI in artistic industries, saying on The Adam Buxton Podcast in May that “this has always been lingering.”

“The first time we did a movie that had a huge amount of our own data locked in a computer — literally what we looked like — was a movie called The Polar Express,” he defined, referencing his work within the 2004 animated Christmas movie.

“We saw this coming,” Hanks continued. “We saw that there was going to be this ability to take zeros and ones inside a computer and turn it into a face and a character. Now that has only grown a billionfold since then, and we see it everywhere.”

Earlier this summer time, a bipartisan group of senators launched the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act, which might enhance safety for people’ proper to publicity by bolstering their authorized claims over unauthorized makes use of of their voice and likenesses. These legal guidelines would pertain to each dwelling celebrities in addition to those that have died.