{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Paul Truesdell Podcast","title":"If It Quacks","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":920,"description":"If It Quacks\nHer hair never moves.\nShe sits in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck, a neat bob, a kind face, and a calm voice. She tells you what to put in your coffee. She tells you which thirteen foods help your body's natural weight-loss hormone. The channel calls her Dr. Elizabeth Monroe.\nHere is the surprising part. Much of what she says is ordinary, decent advice. Eat your greens. Eat fish a couple of times a week. Eat beans, berries, and eggs. Watch the sugar. Walk. Your own doctor would tell you most of that. Some of it is stretched, and some of it you should run past your doctor first, especially the supplements. But the advice is not the real problem.\nThe real problem is that she isn't real.\nThe Tells\nBy every sign we can find, she is a computer creation. Same face, same haircut, same voice, same pace in every video. No practice, no hospital, no license anyone can find. The channel's own About page calls her Dr. Ashley Monroe. A real doctor's office does not forget the doctor's first name.\nThen there are the scripts. One video says out loud, \"In this script, we're going to walk through six levels.\" It ends with, \"Note this script is intended for general informational purposes.\" The narrator is reading the production notes. The same video promises to share \"the combination I personally use most mornings.\" She doesn't have mornings.\nAnd she has company. A Spanish fact-checking group called Maldita.es counted more than one thousand YouTube channels run by doctors made with artificial intelligence. Nearly half of them were collecting a share of YouTube's ad money.\nThe Hook\nNow understand how this works, because it is the part most people miss.\nIt starts with something harmless. An attractive face. A friendly voice. Good advice you already half believe. You watch one video. You like it. You follow. You start scrolling, and one thing leads to another. The next video is a little bolder. Then come the powders, the capsules, the detox, the special...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/115-XsjkdwCpJ99xv-8oZ76t6jr8ScWEC5MYSKzL0ig/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MTUx/OWRiNTc0NTk0Y2Nk/M2VjYTliMGVhN2Zm/YTZkZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}