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William Shatner warned fans to be skeptical of “bizarre” tales about him, including that AI-generated fake news has been spreading on social media that he’s dying.
The “Star Trek” alum clarified that he’s “fit as a fiddle.”
“I wanted to put this out yesterday but given the day and the possibility that it would look like a joke I waited for today,” Shatner wrote on his Instagram web page on Thursday. “There is a page on @facebook that is using AI to create horrible fake news stories about me.”
Shatner stated the web page is called The Beanstalk Functions Group, which he stated seemed to be an occasion planner in South Africa.
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William Shatner claimed that AI-generated tales have been falsely claiming he has most cancers and is dying. (Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)
“They have created tales that say I’ve stage 4 mind most cancers, was in some sort of battle with Erika Kirk and that I’m dying,” he continued. “All their stories are monetized. Most of the stories use an AI image of me. Facebook Support will not remove the page.”
Facebook informed Fox News Digital on Thursday that the web page had been eliminated for “violating our policies.”
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Shatner informed fans to be cautious of “bizarre” tales about him. (Weiss Eubanks/NBCUNIVERSAL through Getty Images)
Shatner added, “Each story is accompanied by a website link in the post that is hosted on Next.js where some of you may have seen my post to the CEO of that company on X asking him to remove these fake stories. None of these stories are true but they apparently seem genuine enough for fans to repost them across social media and send messages of support to me and my family all while the culprits behind the account make money,” he wrote, including that this exhibits the “downside of AI and yellow journalism.”
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Shatner stated one of many AI-generated tales claimed he’d had a battle with Erika Kirk. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP through Getty Images)
He wrote that whereas AI “can be a wonderful tool in the right hands; it can be used as a weapon in the wrong hands,” urging fans to be skeptical of “bizarre” tales about him.
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A few hours later, Shatner shared a photograph of himself smiling in a patio chair, saying that his daughter informed him his granddaughter had heard he had mind most cancers.
“She took this picture and despatched it to me to add to show I’m not ill,” he wrote. “The people who are ill are those that are spreading these ridiculous stories. I’m fit as a fiddle. You don’t have to worry. This is getting insane.”
