Whoopi Goldberg Warns Against AI-Created Ad Using Her Image to Sell Weight-Loss Drug: ‘Do Not Fall for It!’

Mar. 15, 2025

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Whoopi Goldbergsounded off on a fake AI ad that uses her image to sell a weight-loss drug, saying, “I had nothing to do it with.”

“I’m giving everybody a heads up. There’s a phony weight loss ad floating around online on Instagram that has me, AI-mouthed, saying all kinds of stuff,” Goldberg, 69, said on the Feb. 5 episode ofThe View.

“You know I don’t sell anything unless I say, ‘Hey, it’s me Whoopi,’ that’s how you know it’s me. They took something fromCBS Sunday Morningand melded it and they have me selling bad weight-loss drugs.”

Whoopi Goldberg on ‘The View’ on Feb. 5, 2025.The View/ABC

“Do not indulge in this. 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 this is coming from me,” said Goldberg. “I told you what I did! I was upfront. I don’t have any reason to go sell some other stuff. I told you, I took my Mounjaro. I used Mounjaro, okay? That is what I did.”

TheEGOTwinner was indeed upfront, sharing that she took Mounjaro when she realized she weighed 300 lbs. after filmingTill.

“One of the things that’s helped me dropped the weight was the Mounjaro. That’s what I used," Goldberghas said, sharing that she looked in the mirror one day and “I saw me and I thought, ‘Oh! That’s a lot of me!’"

Stock image of the injectable medication Mounjaro.Sandy Huffaker for The Washington Post via Getty

Sandy Huffaker for The Washington Post via Getty

But as Goldberg pointed out onThe View, Mounjaro isallshe took, saying about the ad, “This stuff? I don’t know who these people are. That’s the problem with AI. You don’t know who made it, but I’m telling you, it’s a lot of BS. Do not fall for it. And if you hear somebody say, ‘Oh Whoopi said,’ you can say to them, ‘No, she just told me! That is not correct.’ "

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