Yahoo Lifestyle Whoopi Goldberg Warns Against AI-Created Ad Using Her Image to Sell Weight-Loss Drug: ‘Do Not Fall for It!’
The EGOT winner railed against an ad that's circulating on social media with a manipulated version of her promoting "bad weight loss drugs"
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Whoopi Goldberg warned about an AI advertisement that's using her image to sell weight-loss drugs.Whoopi Goldberg sounded off on a fake AI ad that uses her image to sell a weight-loss drug, saying, “I had nothing to do it with.”
“I’m giving everybody a heads up. There’s a phony weight loss ad floating around online on Instagram that has me, AI-mouthed, saying all kinds of stuff,” Goldberg, 69, said on the Feb. 5 episode of The View.
“You know I don’t sell anything unless I say, ‘Hey, it’s me Whoopi,’ that’s how you know it’s me. They took something from CBS Sunday Morning and melded it and they have me selling bad weight-loss drugs.”
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Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View' on Feb. 5, 2025.Related: What's in the 'Natural Mounjaro' Drink — and Should You Try It?
“Do not indulge in this. Do not look at this, just get rid of it. Because I don’t know what it is, I had nothing to do with it. And I don’t want y’all thinking this is coming from me,” said Goldberg. “I told you what I did! I was upfront. I don’t have any reason to go sell some other stuff. I told you, I took my Mounjaro. I used Mounjaro, okay? That is what I did.”
The EGOT winner was indeed upfront, sharing that she took Mounjaro when she realized she weighed 300 lbs. after filming Till.
“One of the things that’s helped me dropped the weight was the Mounjaro. That’s what I used," Goldberg has said, sharing that she looked in the mirror one day and “I saw me and I thought, ‘Oh! That’s a lot of me!’"
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Stock image of the injectable medication Mounjaro.Mounjaro is the brand name for tirzepatide, which works by reducing appetite and improving how the body breaks down sugar and fat.
But as Goldberg pointed out on The View, Mounjaro is all she took, saying about the ad, “This stuff? I don’t know who these people are. That’s the problem with AI. You don’t know who made it, but I’m telling you, it’s a lot of BS. Do not fall for it. And if you hear somebody say, ‘Oh Whoopi said,’ you can say to them, ‘No, she just told me! That is not correct.’ "
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