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"Paris Hilton’s mother Kathy recently tried the “Jell-O diet” to lose weight.
She believed other celebrities – Oprah Winfrey, Doctor Oz, Michelle Obama and
Kelly Clarkson – had endorsed it. But the diet was fake and so were the
endorsements. Both had been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
Commentators were quick to poke fun. One said:
Kathy is everyone’s grandma that you can’t keep off the internet reading
crazy things.
Misleading health claims are easy to find online, not just about fake diets.
Examples include misinformation about vaccines and the cholesterol-lowering
drugs statins. Then there’s the growing online market for unapproved peptides.
Health misinformation – false, misleading, exaggerated or unsupported claims
about health, disease and medical treatments – can have consequences.
It can delay people from seeking medical care, discourage them from following
evidence-based treatment, increase preventable illness and erode trust in
health professionals. This can happen if such health information is shared
deliberately to mislead or with the best of intentions.
And it’s easy to think older people – like 67-year-old Kathy – are more easily
tricked into believing it.
But we’re all susceptible, whatever our age."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
