The real Professor Jonathan Shaw talks to AusDoc about his AI deepfake and the wider threat to medicine
The endocrinologist says he worried about public trust in the profession.
Leading endocrinologist Professor Jonathan Shaw was on holiday on K’gari (Fraser Island) off the coast of Queensland, with the patchy reception that entails, when he realised something weird was happening.
A deepfake version of him being interviewed by Karl Stefanovic had appeared on Facebook, where he was spruiking a supplement called Glyco Balance while calling doctors who prescribed metformin ‘idiots’.
