Quebec physicians warned of deepfack scams using their equality to sell drugs

Quebec doctors are ringing alarms on the recent deepfec videos that are seen online, saying that they can destroy public belief in the medical system and put people’s health at risk.

AI-related videos use the similarity of real doctors to give suspicious health care advice and some products incorrectly advertise or sell.

“This is something that is causing great damage to all physicians in Quebec and Canada,” Dr. Masnanev-Rosmont Hospital in Montreal. François Markis said.

Markis said that he was in mistrust when he first learned that his image was being used in a Deepfec video.

He said “you are all on Facebook,” he said, “he said,” or that you have discovered something and they want to know if it is true and if they can get drugs. ,

Markis said that the problem is that his face is known and he is confident.

“So this is not only for my patients, it is any patient who is relying on me or trusting any patient extensively,” he said, stating how people can be cheated.

Emergency physician at Montreal Heart Institute, Dr. Ellen Vedbonkouer said their image has also been used to promote various products incorrectly. In the last one week, he says that four different videos were brought to his attention.

In the video, he has seen urologic cases, or prostate cancer, sexual dysfunction and other subjects related to penis growth, said, saying, adding those people are not in their expertise.

“My main concern is about people. They trust me, I think, and they follow this advice and they can put in danger because of those,” said Vadeboncour.

Doctors worry about health risk for patients

Marquis resonated similar concerns around the health and risks of patients.

“The first danger is that you don’t know what they are taking,” Markis said.

While the product may be inactive, it can still cause side effects or react when mixed with other drugs or treatments, they explained.

“The second problem is that some people will actually stop taking their normal medicine to take this fake medicine,” for example, including life saving medicine like insulin or blood thinner, Markis said.

Earlier, Deepfech’s most targeted victim was high-profile celebrity, politicians and supporters athletes. Using someone who is reliable in the community can make it even more difficult to understand what is real and what is fake.

While Vadeboncoeur does not like that their image is being used and being manipulated, they think how it seems about it is not the issue.

He said, “The main issue is that people buy the declared goods there,” he said, all of this seems about the money and amount of fraud.

Fenvic McKelway, an associate professor in the Information and Communication Technology Policy at the University of Concorda, said the online scams are becoming more personal because how simple is making AI-borne deepch.

“This actually creates an issue where you can make this type of fraud more effective, cheaper, and it is difficult to detect everyday citizen,” he said.

Markis personally felt the results of the person, after a person who was taken for a few hundred dollars in the online scam, was shown demanding his money back to the hospital.

“So this is a real problem because it’s not just about, you know, me and Deepfack, now it’s about the safety of the people in the hospital,” he said.

Doctors are not allowed to promote one product on another

In Quebec, this is to individually promote the use of one product against the law for physicians.

“In particular, saying,” This medicine is better than this. ” We can’t do this, “Markis said.

While there is no direct answer to how people can protect themselves, there is a good place to start being careful with any support selling products on social media.

“Very often you can see some labeling of at least online advertisements. When you see it and it seems that it is from someone you know or a doctor but it is an advertisement, it is more doubtful,” McCallway said.

Vadeboncoeur and Marquis are also expecting that raising awareness about the issue will help people to make better decisions that will not risk their health or wallets.