FACT CHECK: Billy Crawford interview used in weight loss ad is AI-edited

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The Facebook video containing the claim has 3,700 reactions, 365,000 views, 885 comments, and 260 shares as of writing.where he discusses his weight loss journey. The video shows Crawford seemingly promoting EcoFit and providing anecdotal evidence to support the purported weight loss effects of the product.The supposed interview is AI-manipulated. Sensity, a Netherlands-based tool for detecting AI, found the video “suspicious” with a 93.1% confidence level.

“High confidence indicates that the detector has found definite signals of AI generation or manipulation. Minimum confidence for this detector is 50%,” according to Sensity.of the interview was posted on the ABS-CBN Entertainment YouTube channel in November 2019. In the original interview, Crawford made no mention of EcoFit; instead, he attributed his weight loss to the keto diet. In the manipulated clip, “keto” was replaced with “EcoFit”.

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