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Holly Seale, Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW

A fake ‘jelly diet’ has fooled at least one celebrity. You could be next

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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:

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