American television personality Gayle King has warned her followers about the dangers of artificial intelligence after she became the victim of a manipulated video. A video of King has circulated on Instagram in which she appeared to promote various weight loss products from a company known as Artipet. The sponsored post appeared on the feed of many of the 'CBS Mornings'' host's one million followers.
The video eventually came to the attention of King, who explained the video was manipulating an authentic video of her to promote a slew of weight loss services falsely. 'People keep sending me this video and asking about this product and I have NOTHING to do with this company,' she wrote in an Instagram post. King revealed that the fabricated content used an August 31 promotional video for her radio show to mislead viewers.
She is not the first celebrity to fall victim to AI. A day earlier, actor Tom Hanks warned that someone used the technology to create a video of him touting the benefits of a dental plan. The video showed the 67-year-old Oscar winner at a younger age dressed in a black shirt and matching suit jacket. 'BEWARE!! There's a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it,' Hanks told his 9.5 million Instagram followers.
could be hit by a bus tomorrow, and that's it, but performances can go on and on and on and on. And outside of the understanding that it's been done with AI or deepfake, there'll be nothing to tell you that it's not me,' Hanks said. 'That's certainly an artistic challenge, but it's also a legal one.
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