No, “Star Trek” star William Shatner isn’t dead. At least, according to him. Where did the malicious death hoax originate you may ask? Well, with AI of course!
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On October 1st, X (formally Twitter) user BleedingPurple4 responded to a post Shatner made about some special screenings of “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”
“You good Captain,” the user asked accompanied by a screenshot of Microsoft’s AI system, CoPilot, stating the actor died this year at the age of 93.
A few hours later Shatner responded; “Not after reading this.😱” Which community notes took as proof to add “He’s not dead, Jim,” to the image.
While we don’t always take an actor’s word at face value, we think it’s a pretty safe bet AI got this one wrong. Especially considering its track record for churning out bad information. For example, Google’s Gemini program had to be shut down for a while after creating pictures of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers. (Yes, really.)
We’ll keep you posted on updates about future projects with the very much-alive William Shatner.