theguardian.com: Deepfakes Reportedly Impersonated David Taylor-Robinson and Other UK Health Experts to Promote Wellness Nest Supplements
In the UK, purported deepfake videos reportedly impersonated Professor David Taylor-Robinson and other health experts on TikTok and other platforms to promote supplements linked to Wellness Nest. The videos allegedly altered real footage and cloned voices to spread misleading medical claims about menopause, misuse identifiable individuals' likenesses, and expose viewers seeking health advice to health misinformation and deceptive marketing.
AI Incident Database · Incident 1397Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D6 (autonomy oversight), D7 (tool permissions).
Event summary
In the UK, purported deepfake videos reportedly impersonated Professor David Taylor-Robinson and other health experts on TikTok and other platforms to promote supplements linked to Wellness Nest. The videos allegedly altered real footage and cloned voices to spread misleading medical claims about menopause, misuse identifiable individuals' likenesses, and expose viewers seeking health advice to health misinformation and deceptive marketing.
Linked entities
- deepfake-technology-developers
organisation | 70%
- synthetic-audio-generation-technology-developers
organisation | 70%
- unknown-scammers-impersonating-david-taylor-robinson
organisation | 70%
- scammers
organisation | 70%
- david-taylor-robinson
organisation | 70%
- epistemic-integrity
organisation | 70%
- women-seeking-menopause-advice
organisation | 70%
- people-seeking-medical-advice
organisation | 70%
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| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-deepfake-technology-developers to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |