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AI-generated ‘doctors’ are duping TikTok users with fake medical advice


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On TikTok, one search yields dozens of videos of women rattling off phrases like, “13 years as a coochie doctor and nobody believes me when I tell them this,” before dishing so-called health secrets for perky breasts, snatched stomachs, chiseled jawlines and balanced pH levels. One search for these informational clips yields dozens of results, and navigating to the users’ pages shows multiple videos utilizing the same creator claiming to be a “butt,” “booty” or “coochie” doctor, as well as a dieitian and plastic surgeon. TikTok / @locks_healthJavon 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.

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