The Propaganda Playbook: AI Fraud (He Made $1.8 Billion With 800 Fake Doctors) - #Marketing - Ep. 126 copertina

The Propaganda Playbook: AI Fraud (He Made $1.8 Billion With 800 Fake Doctors) - #Marketing - Ep. 126

The Propaganda Playbook: AI Fraud (He Made $1.8 Billion With 800 Fake Doctors) - #Marketing - Ep. 126

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 There’s a moment when the future shows up and the people writing about it forget to check who’s actually building it. The New York Times just profiled a guy who built a $1.8 billion company from a house in LA with two employees and a stack of AI tools. The internet lost its mind. Sam Altman said he wanted to meet him. Inc. ran a glowing follow-up. There was just one problem - the entire customer-acquisition machine was built on more than 800 AI-generated fake doctors selling real weight-loss drugs to real people on Facebook, and the FDA had already sent a warning letter six weeks before the article ran. In this episode, I walk you through what’s actually happening underneath the headlines - fake doctors with profiles claiming to be from Kiev with interests in Bronze Age archaeology, AI-generated before-and-after photos so sloppy that one “patient” has her fingers melted into her phone, FDA warning letters the Times never mentioned, and 1.6 million patient records exposed in a data breach at the clinical partner. Then I trace it back 100 years to Edward Bernays, who invented this exact technique - “manufactured third-party authority” - by getting real doctors to endorse cigarettes and bacon. Same playbook. Same psychology. Same manipulation. Except now AI made it infinitely scalable, infinitely cheaper, and the doctors don’t even have to exist. Key Highlights: ◼️The full $1.8B AI fraud breakdown - 800 fake doctor profiles (including a “Professor Albus Dumbledore”), AI-generated patient photos with fingers melted into phones, 5,000 active Facebook ads, an FDA warning letter the New York Times never mentioned, and a 1.6M-record data breach at the clinical partner ◼️Why Edward Bernays’ 100-year-old “Manufactured Third-Party Authority” technique - the same one that sold cigarettes and bacon - is the exact playbook this company just ran through AI, except infinitely cheaper and scaled to people who never existed ◼️The on-the-record prediction I’m making: the FTC shuts this company down within 12 months (and why every entrepreneur celebrating it should be thinking about what “compliance from day one” actually costs) ◼️The 4-part playbook for building real authority the legal way - real testimonials from real customers, real expert relationships, knowing the FTC and FDA rules before you run your first ad, and the question that tells you whether your product is actually good enough ◼️Why every legitimate marketer pays the price when one billion-dollar fraud breaks - and the comment I want from you if you’re one of the entrepreneurs building businesses the right way At the end of the day, this episode isn’t really about one founder or one company. It’s about what happens when the people writing the headlines stop checking the work, and the rest of us treat that omission as proof of the future. AI doesn’t have a conscience. The technology doesn’t care if the doctor in your ad exists. You have to be the conscience. So the real question is: now that the same tools that build a legitimate business can build a billion-dollar fraud just as fast, are you the kind of entrepreneur who’ll be the conscience the technology doesn’t have - or the kind who finds out the hard way? ◼️If you’ve got a product, offer, service… or idea… I’ll show you how to sell it (the RIGHT way) Register for my next event → https://sellingonline.com/podcast ◼️Still don’t have a funnel? ClickFunnels gives you the exact tools (and templates) to launch TODAY → https://clickfunnels.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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