Description: Whoopi Goldberg warned viewers of The View about an AI-generated scam using her likeness to promote fraudulent weight-loss products on Instagram. Goldberg stated that she had no involvement with the ads, which falsely depicted her endorsing harmful supplements.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Unknown scammers impersonating Whoopi Goldberg, which harmed Whoopi Goldberg , Fans of Whoopi Goldberg , Consumers misled by fraudulent ads and General public.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake apps and Instagram advertising platform
Incident Stats
Incident ID
917
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-02-05
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
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Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.