Description: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust warned that purported AI-generated videos circulated on Facebook and TikTok depicted its clinicians endorsing weight loss patches. The videos allegedly impersonated doctors and used misleading medical claims to market a product.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown voice cloning technology developers and Unknown deepfake technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Unknown scammers, which harmed People seeking medical advice , Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust clinicians , Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust , General public of the United Kingdom , General public and Epistemic integrity.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown voice cloning technology , Unknown deepfake technology , TikTok , Social media platforms and Facebook
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1405
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-01-09
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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A hospital trust in south London has issued an alert after fraudulent videos were circulated online claiming its staff endorsed weight loss products.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust said that the videos, found on social media plat…
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