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Taiwanese health educator says AI videos copying her face and voice ran in over 100 fake adverts; a fact-checker found one YouTube video AI-generated

A well-known Taiwanese health educator and former hospital toxicology nurse, who appears on television health programmes, told TVBS and PTS in October 2026 that her likeness and voice had for a long time been used without her consent in AI-synthesised videos promoting foods, cookware and cleaning products, most recently a red-date and yam cake sold through Facebook and YouTube adverts. She said she had learned of most of them from viewers or from Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs, which had helped handle dozens of cases; counting her own reports the cases exceeded 100, and some people had still been deceived. She said some viewers who believed she endorsed the products berated her in comments, that the impersonation affected her daily life, and that she felt she had a trauma syndrome. In September 2026 she had told the Liberty Times that since mid-July she had been warning on Facebook about AI-generated videos using her photos and voice. The fact-checking site MyGoPen examined one such item, a 21 September YouTube video presented as her health advice, and found it came from an unofficial channel, that its voice and images were AI-generated, that the video page was labelled as AI-generated content and that the video page had since been suspended by YouTube; her verified Facebook account replied that the channel was a scam. The AI attribution of the product adverts themselves rests on her statements and the outlets' reports.

AI system
Unidentified video tool
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
22 September 2026
Event location
Unknown
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Psychological DistressReputational Harm
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Everyday life · Health
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 4 sources
6 claims: 6 reported. 4 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 1 person

AI system as recorded: AI-synthesised videos imitating the educator's face and voice in product adverts on Facebook and YouTube and in a YouTube health video; tools and makers not identified (one video examined by MyGoPen was labelled as AI-generated content)

What Happened

Her account. In interviews published by TVBS and the public broadcaster PTS on 26 October 2026, a well-known Taiwanese health educator and former hospital toxicology nurse said her likeness and voice had for a long time been used without her consent in AI-synthesised videos promoting foods, cookware and cleaning products, most recently a red-date and yam cake. On 22 October she had posted on Facebook that Facebook and YouTube adverts for the cake used videos synthesised from her likeness and voice. She told TVBS she had not known about most of the videos until viewers told her or the Ministry of Digital Affairs asked her to verify them; she had rebutted them on Facebook dozens of times, the ministry had helped handle dozens of cases and, with her own reports, the total exceeded 100, but some people were still deceived. She also explained why she could not have endorsed the foods, citing her own and her family's dietary restrictions.

Effect on her. She told TVBS that most viewers reminded her politely, but some, believing she really recommended the products, berated her in comments. She said the impersonation affected her daily life: when people greet her she now immediately says she endorses nothing, and she told both outlets she felt she had a trauma syndrome. This is her own description; no clinical assessment is reported.

Earlier warnings. The Liberty Times reported on 22 September 2026 that she had warned on Facebook in mid-July that many AI-generated videos were using her photos and voice to sell products, and that she had again asked followers to report new videos for cookware, mats, knee braces and foods, and AI-generated health videos on YouTube that she had not made.

A fact-checked example. On 12 October 2026 the Taiwanese fact-checker MyGoPen examined a YouTube video published on 21 September under the title that she had named ten top high-protein foods. It found the video came from an unofficial channel, that its voice and images were AI-generated in her name, that the video page itself was labelled as AI-generated content and that the video page had since been suspended by YouTube; it adds that the channel had been set up recently and had produced a large amount of AI content imitating her voice in a short time. Her verified Facebook account replied to a question about the channel that it was a scam.

What is not known. The sources do not identify who made or placed the adverts, which AI tools were used, how many people bought products or lost money, or when the impersonation began. The AI attribution of the product adverts rests on her statements and the outlets' reports; the only video examined by a third party is MyGoPen's YouTube example.

Reported harm

A Taiwanese health educator says AI-synthesised videos using her face and voice appeared in more than 100 fake adverts and health videos, that some viewers believed her endorsement and berated her, that some people were deceived, and that the impersonation has affected her daily life and left her feeling she has a trauma syndrome; a fact-checker found one such YouTube video AI-generated.

Outcome

Ongoing

She has repeatedly posted rebuttals on Facebook and reported the videos, and the Ministry of Digital Affairs helped handle dozens of cases, according to her account to TVBS. MyGoPen reports that the page of the video it examined has since been suspended by YouTube. No report read describes action against the advertisers or the makers.

What remains unknown

  • Who made and placed the adverts and which AI tools were used.
  • When the impersonation began; her earliest dated warning is from mid-July 2026.
  • How many people bought products or lost money.
  • Whether a platform, the ministry or another examiner found the product adverts AI-generated; only one YouTube video was examined by a fact-checker.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The educator says, and TVBS and PTS report, that the adverts were AI-synthesised from her likeness and voice to promote products she never endorsed, and that viewers who believed them berated her. For one item, a YouTube video presented as her health advice, the fact-checker MyGoPen examined the video page and found the voice and images AI-generated, the page labelled as AI-generated content and the video page suspended by YouTube. No third party is reported to have examined the product adverts themselves, and the tools and makers are not identified.

6 claims: 6 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported The educator says her likeness and voice have for a long time been used without consent in AI-synthesised videos promoting foods, cookware and cleaning products, most recently a red-date and yam cake.

Causal attribution. Her account, with PTS's own narrative; the AI attribution of the adverts rests on her statements and the outlets' reports.

Reported On 22 October 2026 she again rebutted Facebook and YouTube adverts for the cake, saying the videos were scam content synthesised from her likeness and voice.

Causal attribution. Her public rebuttal as reported by TVBS.

  • news.tvbs.com.tw(opens in new tab) supports · Chinese (Taiwan)
    '10月22日又針對臉書及YouTube流傳的紅棗山藥八珍糕廣告再次澄清，強調影片是利用她的肖像、聲音合成的詐騙內容'
Reported She says the cases exceed 100, counting dozens handled with the Ministry of Digital Affairs and her own reports, and that some people have still been deceived.

Causal attribution. Her figures as reported; the deceived people are not counted.

Reported She says some viewers who believed she endorsed the products berated her in comments, that the impersonation affects her daily life, and that she feels she has a trauma syndrome.

Causal attribution. Her own description of the effect on her, given in two interviews; no clinical assessment is reported.

Reported MyGoPen found that a 21 September 2026 YouTube video presented as her health advice came from an unofficial channel, that its voice and images were AI-generated, that the video page was labelled as AI-generated content and that the video page had been suspended by YouTube; her verified Facebook account replied that the channel was a scam.

Causal attribution. Fact-checker's examination of one video, with its stated basis (the page's AI-generated label and the channel's output).

  • mygopen.com(opens in new tab) supports · Chinese (Taiwan)
    '經查證，影片出自非官方的頻道，聲音與畫面均為冒用名義的 AI 生成' ... '且影片頁面亦標示為 AI 生成內容' ... '目前已經遭到 YouTube 停權' ... '以作者身分回覆「是詐騙」'
Reported In mid-July 2026 she warned on Facebook that many AI-generated videos were using her photos and voice to sell products, and in September she asked followers to report new ones.

Causal attribution. Her earlier Facebook warnings as relayed by the Liberty Times.

  • ent.ltn.com.tw(opens in new tab) supports · Chinese (Taiwan)
    '7月中旬罕見在臉書發文要網友粉絲別上當' ... '很多AI生成影片不斷冒用我的照片及聲音販賣各種疏通劑、食品'

Sources

4 sources inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. TVBS interview report by its own reporter, published 26 Oct 2026; HTTP 200. Applies to s1.

Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. PTS News report with its own interview, published 26 Oct 2026; HTTP 200. Applies to s2.

Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. MyGoPen fact-check published 12 Oct 2026, examining one YouTube video; HTTP 200. Applies to s3.

Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. Liberty Times entertainment report of 22 Sep 2026 relaying her Facebook posts; HTTP 200. Applies to s4.

Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Taiwan. Court countries: Unknown.

TVBS and PTS describe her as a former nurse at a Taiwanese hospital whose cases Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs helped handle, so TW is recorded as the affected person's country. The sources do not say where the adverts were made or placed from, so no event country is recorded.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-27: Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): a Taiwanese health educator describes her face and voice being imitated in AI-made adverts and health videos more than 100 times, with abuse from deceived viewers and lasting distress, and a fact-checker found one of the videos AI-generated from the page's own label and the channel's output. She is not named; the AI status of the product adverts rests on her account.

People described

A well-known Taiwanese health educator and former hospital toxicology nurse who appears on television health programmes; her face and voice were imitated in AI-made product adverts and health videos. She is not named in this record. Viewers she says were deceived are not counted.

People reported harmed in this case

At least 1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

Additional affected people are described without a reliable count.

One person counted: the educator whose likeness and voice were imitated and who describes distress and abuse from viewers. She also says some people were deceived by the adverts; they are not counted because no number is given.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#ai-impersonation#fake-endorsement#voice-imitation#health-misinformation#facebook-ads#youtube#taiwan

Cite this case

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APA

NOPE. (2026). Taiwanese health educator says AI videos copying her face and voice ran in over 100 fake adverts; a fact-checker found one YouTube video AI-generated. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-taiwan-health-educator-says-ai-videos-copying-her-face-and-voice-ran-in-over-100-fake-product-adverts

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  title = {Taiwanese health educator says AI videos copying her face and voice ran in over 100 fake adverts; a fact-checker found one YouTube video AI-generated},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-taiwan-health-educator-says-ai-videos-copying-her-face-and-voice-ran-in-over-100-fake-product-adverts}
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