Ranking AI Doctors from Fake to Terrifyingly Real

Your mother could be getting fooled by an AI channel right now and by the end of this video you'll know exactly how to spot those. So your LDL goes down as a result, not because you're eating less cholesterol. So the face we just saw is a real doctor in UK, but the channel using it is AI. There are hundreds of AI doctor channels and they're getting better every week.

I build AI software for a living in healthcare. I work with AI every day and for the last 6 months I've been studying these AI YouTube doctors. In this video, I'm going to rank them by how dangerous they are. And it all comes down to how believable they are because of the variance that they add in the videos.

I'll explain what that means as we go along. So, let's start with an F tier channel, one that's really easy to spot, the Senior Wellness channel. It's got 267,000 subscribers and about 13 million views. at the bottom of the believability and variance ladder. That's astounding. This channel is not even trying to look human.

It has no face, no persona, no human ever appears in the video. The thumbnails say things like top heart surgeon says, but no surgeon ever appears. Um, it is AI generated anatomy renders alarm thumbnails and a synthetic voice reading a script. There is no person to be variant. The whole pipeline is just one operator with a script generator and a stock footage library.

But the fact that it's not even trying and that it's pulling in so many views, that's the part that scares me. Like, how are people eating this up? It's not even trying. So, this next channel actually tries, but it does the cheapest thing that AI can do, which is just a fake name. So, it's a Ctier or class channel.

It's called Dr. Narita. Like I said, they try adding a doctor's name, but there's no face. There's no human in the videos. Just a name. But, you know, at least they're trying a little bit more than just calling it senior wellness or whatever. Um, they're trying to make you believe that it's a doctor.

So, with that doctor, we finally got a name for the pipeline, Dr. Narita. The next channel finally tries to add a face. So, this next one is a B tier. It's called Senior Book. There are about 110,000 subscribers. Like I said, the pipeline has a face now, but it's only a picture, a still image. It's really not a lot of variance.

And you can see that face by just looking at the thumbnails. So, you have an older male doctor appearing in a couple of thumbnails. He's wearing scrubs. His expression is intense. He's pointing at the camera. And he is begging you as a brain doctor, as an orthopedic surgeon, as a heart surgeon. He's begging you as all of those surgeons.

He's begging you. So, let's see what happens when we click on the video. By the end of this video, you will know exactly which five techniques the science says are the most powerful for reducing swollen feet quickly and safely, no matter your age. He never appears in the video. So, once you click play, the face is just in the thumbnail and the doctor is gone.

The video is just AI voice over and stock footage and maybe some 3D renders. That's it. So that's Btier deception in my opinion. You're showing it of an image of a doctor, but you don't even have to prove it because you don't even have that in the video. So nobody can hold that under scrutiny. But that face has to fool you in a still image.

The next channel needed to fool you in motion. So this is an A tier channel. Dr. Sam Waterling, very popular channel, 321,000 subscribers. And this pipeline is a little bit more advanced than the next one. The face starts moving. It's the most polished 100% AI invented persona. There's no real person behind this or no doctor, no license.

It's the most polished one on YouTube. And that is exactly why doctors sometimes call them a silent killer. And this is not only a worry for people in their 80s. So if you look at the channel, it's an avatar. You can clearly see the mouth movement is not really believable. Uh the voice consistency is the same across 60 videos.

It's just the same voice. So AI factories like to use that and um it's a real sounding name. So Sam Waterling. So it's pretty deceptive. It could fool a lot of people. And so if you check the about page, uh the channel features content produced with the assistance of AI technology. So, it actually has to declare that otherwise YouTube is just going to remove the channel.

And that takes us to the next channel, the S tier. It's the same kind. I believe it's fully AI behind the camera, but instead of inventing a face from scratch, the operator uses a face that already exists. In my opinion, this is Alex Wly is a real person, real face, real name, real medical license. So that's S tier.

They really went above and beyond here. This is the top of the variance or believability ladder. This Alex Wly channel, whoever runs it, is not the same caliber as other AI swab factories. It's really high quality. It's an elite AI content producing team that's pushing the boundaries and building around them.

It takes a lot of skill and time to be able to tell that it's AI. And that's the part that gets me. [sighs] the Sam Warling channel, they confess that it's AI. They have to. It's easy to spot. But this channel that's behind or in front of Dr. Alex Wly, they're so cocky. They think they can get away with not using that.

And you know, if they use that, YouTube would take all their monetization, which is the whole reason why they're producing this stuff and then it wouldn't be profitable. But yeah, like they're they're really cocky. They believe that whatever staff member from YouTube verifies the channel is not going to be competent enough to be able to tell that this is AI.

And so far, I believe that's exactly what happened. So, the channel ships one video every 24 hours, a 20-minute video every 24 hours. And I don't think that's possible, especially given his circumstance or the supposed circumstance of, you know, having a newborn, a wife, working as an emergency doctor.

And I believe actually that part about working as an emergency doctor is just to be able to tell those stories, those relatable stories that sound give that channel authority in those videos. To me, there are a lot of tells about the lack of variance within the videos. But I think it actually takes a lot of training to be able to spot that.

And you also have to turn that part of your brain on. Um, I had another data scientist comment that they did not notice it until they turned it on. But one that should be really obvious is that the voice is not the same as the one that was on the BBC channel. And also the voice that's on the channel never changes.

I think my voice changes. I don't know how often, but it changes a lot and other real human creators do and you don't get that with that AI generated channel. But look, if you really want to be an expert and you're actually open to understanding this, the biggest tell between AI and human stuff is AI is not able to handle many variables at the same time.

You can't have multiple characters in a video. It's just too much to be able to move at the same time. That's an example of something that's really hard for AI to replicate. But for the Wly channel, it's just a talking head, the same desk or studio, not a lot going on. And so it's really easy to keep the variance down and make it believable to a lot of people.

And while we're on this topic, the channel has been panicking trying to get ahead of this, adding more variants and actually made them mess up. Take a look here. So your LDL goes down as a result, not because you're eating less cholesterol. So that's the video that I open up with. It tried to add more motion, more lights, and as a result, the video skipped or teleported while the audio was the same.

So, the audio didn't know to check the video to see if like the video made sense, but the video didn't make sense. And there's a really good engineering reason why it's so hard to do this. like real variance is free to humans, but to factories, it costs a lot to be able to get good quality while allowing things to vary.

That's why with a lot of products, they're the exact same size, right? If you get a can of Pringles, it's the same size, except unless you get a small one, I guess you get two sizes of Pringles. But yeah, that's what an STR looks like. Real face, real name, real credentials, AI generated scripts. I've covered that in another video.

And it's nearly impossible for non-technical viewers to be able to detect it. So, that raises the question, how can you tell which one is a doctor? I did promise you a test. This is Dr. O'Donovan. 566,000 subscribers. He is a real UK doctor. I'm as confident about this as I am confident about anything on this channel.

And the reason is again variance. But Dr. Donovan has 818 videos uploaded since 2014. That's a reasonable amount. He covers a lot of things. You've got pancreatic cancer warning signs, linkal exam, ear wax removal, micro penis, jock, age, kidney stones, group sounds, and children. Got a whole series on penis hygiene.

And one that's really good is that there are exercise videos. Those are really hard for AI to make. But yeah, all that is to say that that is what a human channel looks like. It's chaotic and AI factories will never be able to produce a channel like that at scale. It would be way too expensive. It would cost millions.

It would not be profitable. Maybe in hundreds of years. By the way, Dr. Odonovan, I know you watch my channel. You've commented before. Sorry that I've used it as an example without asking you. I'm just in a hurry to make a lot of videos. I feel like I've got to get this out quick. So, sorry. But yeah, you are exactly what a YouTube doctor should look like.

If you have not subscribed to Dr. Donovan yet, go ahead and do that now. I'll leave a link in my description. So, I like to believe that there is a huge line between Dr. Donovan and the AI channel Dr. Alex, but a lot of people don't see that. And my mission is to help you see that. So, if that's something you're interested in, subscribe.