{"id":12714,"date":"2026-01-30T23:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/ai-influencers-this-viral-monk-selling-wellness-content-isnt-real\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:32:29","slug":"ai-influencers-this-viral-monk-selling-wellness-content-isnt-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/ai-influencers-this-viral-monk-selling-wellness-content-isnt-real\/","title":{"rendered":"AI influencers: This viral monk selling wellness content isn&#039;t real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/cbfed354-fdc2-11f0-86dc-005056a90284\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/capture-110370062697c81b9344e20-48315471.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>A Buddhist monk influencer has amassed millions of followers on social media, sharing spiritual guidance videos and selling e-books on healing. The catch is that he&#8217;s AI-generated. Vedika Bahl explains in this edition of Truth or Fake.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/truth-or-fake\/20260129-ai-influencers-this-viral-monk-selling-wellness-content-isn-t-real-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Buddhist monk influencer has amassed millions of followers on social media, sharing spiritual guidance videos and selling e-books on healing. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-sante"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}