Actor William Shatner has responded to social media posts claiming he is dying of cancer, calling them "horrible." The posts were created by a Facebook page called Beanstalk Functions, which used artificial intelligence to create fake photos of him in a hospital bed and claim he is suffering from stage 4 brain cancer. Despite these false claims, Shatners defended the page and stated that it would not be removed from Facebook. He also highlighted that the creators of these fake news stories are making money through their use of AI.