The article discusses the prevalence of AI-generated characters on TikTok posing as medical experts, providing users with dubious health advice. These deepfake personas, which include fictional 'doctors' claiming years of experience, are not real and can manipulate audiences with fabricated knowledge. Javon Ford, a beauty brand creator, has criticized the phenomenon as 'deeply insidious,' highlighting the app called Captions that allows users to create these avatars. The situation raises concerns about the authenticity of online health information and the potential repercussions of misleading medical advice on social media.
Javon Ford, the creator of his namesake beauty brand, recently revealed that the AI-generated personalities can be manipulated on an app called Captions, which bills itself as a tool to generate and edit talking AI videos. The company claims that it has 100,000 daily users of the app, with over 3 million videos produced every month.
One account has posted dozens of clips featuring the same woman, who claimed to have spent 13 years as a 'coochie' and 'butt' doctor.
But Ford called the service 'deeply insidious.' 'You might have noticed a few of these 'creators' on your 'For You' page. None of them are real,' he warned.
The discrepancies are enough to raise a few eyebrows. Media Matters reported that the same gaggle of alleged deepfake characters have also appeared as salespeople for wellness products or claimed to have connections to Hollywood to dish insider gossip.
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