I Watched Dr. Phil Sell Me a Prostate Pill. Except It Wasn’t Dr. Phil.

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I thought I was watching trusted doctors and celebrities share important new information about prostate health, but I discovered I’d been drawn into an extraordinarily convincing sales pitch that may have used AI-generated faces and voices. My embarrassing experience left me with three bottles of pills I won’t take—and a troubling realization that in the age of AI, seeing and hearing something with our own eyes and ears is no longer enough to know that it’s real.

 

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