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Deepfakes Reportedly Impersonated David Taylor-Robinson and Other UK Health Experts to Promote Wellness Nest Supplements

AI Incident Database · article · Dec 5, 2025 · UTC

In the UK, purported deepfake videos reportedly impersonated Professor David Taylor-Robinson and other health experts on TikTok and other platforms to promote supplements linked to Wellness Nest. The videos allegedly altered real footage and cloned voices to spread misleading medical claims about menopause, misuse identifiable individuals' likenesses, and expose viewers seeking health advice to health misinformation and deceptive marketing.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2025-08-11T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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