Jennifer Aniston Is on the Right Side of AI History

Unlike many of her Hollywood peers who have co-signed AI (looking at you, Reese Witherspoon), The Morning Show star is calling it out.

By Audra Heinrichs | October 10, 2025 | 4:13pm

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Jennifer Aniston Is on the Right Side of AI History

This week, Jennifer Aniston did something I never anticipated a longtime co-star and friend of Reese Witherspoon would do: she took a hard and fast stance on AI.

In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, The Morning Show star revealed she’s recently become a target of AI deepfakes online—so much so that her friends and team routinely send her photos fit for cease-and-desists. Some examples include advertisements and scams designed to elicit money from unsuspecting individuals using Aniston’s likeness.

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“I catch things all the time, or friends send me things saying, ‘I don’t think this is you’, or ‘I don’t think you’re advertising this’ and I’ll send it to my lawyers so they can do a cease-and-desist,” Aniston told the publication.

“It’s just such a runaway train,” she said of AI. “Big tech, it’s crazy…”

She also said she’s concerned about young people on social media and how they can see or find whatever they want: “I’m sure the guys who came up with it thought it was a great idea and, yeah, congratulations on your billions, but it has taken down a huge portion of humanity.”

Earlier this year, a British man told the Daily Mail that he was conned out of $266 after a person pretending to be Aniston sent him a DM of what appeared to be her driver’s license. After he believed the individual was Aniston, he sent the money they had asked for in the form of non-refundable Apple gift cards.

Sadly, this story is strikingly similar to the woman who was convinced she’d been DM-ing with Aniston’s ex-husband, Brad Pitt, for a year and a half. Meanwhile, the poser-Pitt used WhatsApp accounts and AI technology to send her what appeared to be selfies, poems, songs, and an apparent copy of Pitt’s passport. In one photo, Pitt’s face is photoshopped onto a man mid-surgery. In another, a clearly altered Pitt holds up a sign with her name. The woman even left her husband for the individual and sent them $850,000 after they asked for money for their divorce proceedings from none other than Angelina Jolie.

Good for Aniston! Unlike many of her Hollywood peers who have co-signed AI (looking at you, Witherspoon), I’m relieved someone of her status is actually calling out its inherent immorality.

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