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Bobbi Althoff broke her silence after a deepfake masturbation video using her likeness began trending on social media.
Althoff, famous for “The Really Good Podcast,” took to social media, filming a selfie video to set fans straight by clarifying that the video making its rounds online was a total fake, generated by artificial intelligence.
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“Guys funny story,” she said in the video posted Wednesday.
“Yesterday I went on X — Twitter — and I saw that I was trending. I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s a first. I’m trending on Twitter. You guys must really love my podcast. Wow,'” Althoff continued. “So I clicked it, and, I was like, ‘Um what the fuck is this?'”
She expressed her total and utter shock when she began to view a video of someone that looked just like her masturbating on a bed.
“I ended up really — I, I, felt like it was a mistake or something,” the married mother of two said. “Like, it was like bots or something, I didn’t realize that it was actually people believing that that was me, um, until, my whole team called me and were like, ‘Is this — is this real?'”
Althoff expressed her disgust over the whole situation.
“So you guys, you guys, anyway: not me. Sorry to disappoint, but what the fuck?” she said. “No, that was so graphic, too. I was like, ‘Oh my God, I had to cover my eyes.'”
She also posted a screengrab of her name trending on Twitter and wrote, “Hate to disappoint you all, but the reason I’m trending is 100% not me & is definitely AI-generated.”
Althoff is one of many celebrities to fall victim to AI generated deepfakes in recent months.