Whoopi Goldberg Slams ‘Phony’ Weight Loss Ad Using Her Likeness With AI

On Feb. 5’s episode of The View, host Whoopi Goldberg stopped the show from taking a commercial break to give a warning: she says there is an Instagram ad using an AI version of her likeness to sell weight loss drugs without her consent. 

“There’s a phony weight loss ad floating around online, on Instagram, that has me — uh huh,” she said angrily to an audibly abhorred crowd “AI-mouthed, saying all kinds of stuff about — you know, I don’t sell anything. Unless I say ‘Hey, it’s me, Whoopi,’ that’s how you know it’s me.”

Goldberg posited that the ad used footage of her from an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning to mimic her, saying they must have “melded it” with AI technology. Rolling Stone has not reviewed the ad.

“They have me selling bad weight loss drugs. Do not, do not indulge in this,” she warned. “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 that this is coming from me.” Goldberg disclosed, as she said she’s done before, that she has used the Type 2 diabetes drug Mounjaro in her weight loss. 

“I don’t know who these people are, that’s the problem with AI,” she continued. “You don’t know who made it, but I’m telling you, it’s a lot of B.S., do not fall for it.”

As a host on The View, the EGOT winner of 23 years has also sounded off on Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about Federal Emergency Management Agency during Hurricane Helene and fired back when the president railed against them for interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris during his campaign.