AI Doctors Take Over Social Media, Spreading Fake Claims
AI has become a big part of our everyday lives, but some bad actors are taking it too far. Content creator Liam Fisher-Layton shared a clip exposing how AI is being used to make TikToks of fake doctors selling supplements.
His video begins with a screen overlay of a woman who claims to be a "butt doctor" making some...outlandish claims. Like lemon balm being 98 percent more effective than Ozempic and mangoes balancing pH.
If the "butt doctor" part didn't tip you off, Fisher-Layton confirms that the video was made with AI by using photos of women's faces who work in healthcare. Then, it spits out a bunch of videos and waits for one of them to hit the algorithm just right.
Why? To to help someone make a quick buck selling crappy supplements.
If you click the link in the bio of the account in question, it leads you to a cheap Moringa supplement website. By cheap, we mean $22.50 for 60 capsules.
The supplement ad claims it helps reduce inflammation, improve gut health, boost immunity, and other buzz words that may catch a health-conscious individual's attention.
Moringa itself isn't the problem. (The plant has some proven health properties.) It's the fact that AI is being misused to fabricate credibility and sell a supplement of dubious origin, with fake doctors and pseudoscientific claims preying on vulnerable individuals for profit.
As one user acknowledged in a comment, many of us believe everything we see on the Internet—causing even more concern about the rise of AI.
This isn't the first instance AI in which has been used to deceive consumers, either. Celebrities like Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift have also been the subject of fake AI endorsement videos.
AI may be making life easier for many, but its misuse for exploitation highlights its darker side. Already, there are over over 800 incidents reported in the AI Incident Database—a platform which "indexes the history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems."
"The future of AI is going to be interesting, to say the least," says Fisher-Layton.
