This billion dollar AI "company" is 100% fake..
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Questioning the NYT narrative that AI sparked Medvy’s rise and examining the bold claims about its rapid growth.
A provocative takedown of Medvy and a viral NYT profile, arguing the billion-dollar AI-backed success is built on fake ads, doctored before/after photos, and questionable claims.
Summary
Asmongold scrutinizes a viral New York Times piece about a $1.8 billion company supposedly powered by AI. He questions how Medv, a GLP-1 weight-loss provider, could reach that scale with just two employees, and argues the story glosses over troubling evidence. Drawing on Futurism’s 2025 investigation, he highlights AI-generated imagery, fake testimonials, and alleged misleading ads tied to Medv’s marketing. He cites an FDA warning letter and a pending class-action lawsuit to challenge the legitimacy of the product and the company’s claims. Throughout, Asmongold contrasts celebratory AI narratives from tech elites with on-the-ground complaints from customers and doctors allegedly involved with Medv. He warns that AI-enabled marketing deception could become a larger problem if not scrutinized, urging viewers to question sensational success stories and the sources that promote them. He credits Maggie Dupre’s investigative journalism for laying groundwork that mainstream coverage sometimes overlooks. The overall message is a cautionary call to verify claims, especially when AI is used to amplify hype around health products.
Key Takeaways
- Medv’s $1.8B valuation and AI-heavy framing are challenged by evidence of manipulated visuals and deceptive marketing.
- Futurism’s 2025 investigation found AI-generated photos and altered testimonials tied to Medv’s site and ads.
- FDA warning letters and a class-action lawsuit imply significant regulatory and efficacy concerns around Medv’s products.
- Ads and endorsements for Medv frequently feature fake doctors or AI-generated personas, per the Meta Ads Library and related reports.
- Customer reviews describe non-delivery and charge-front issues, highlighting shady billing practices and unfulfilled promises.
- The NYT profile is criticized for glossing over problematic practices that Futurism and other investigations documented.
- Asmongold cautions that AI-fueled hype can obscure real-world harm when health-related products are marketed online.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for viewers skeptical of viral AI success stories and health-tech marketing, especially those who want to understand how investigative journalism intersects with AI-enabled promotions.
Notable Quotes
"billion dollar AI company built on lies. Let me see this."
—Openings set the frame for the central claim of deception behind Medv and AI hype.
"They use AI to change the photos for before and after for the weight loss thing that they were selling."
—Cites specific evidence of manipulated testimonials and visuals.
"This is basically built on. I'm not going to argue that in this story. You're also going to see a lot of allegations from actual customers of the company, which the New York Times doesn't spend a lot of time on."
—Points to perceived gaps in mainstream coverage.
"The FDA warning letter... your website's false and misleading claims concerning compound."
—Gives regulatory concern as a cornerstone of the critique.
"It's just not a great outcome. And this story is the medicine's fake, the reviews are fake, the website's fake, the doctors are fake."
—Summarizes the core allegation of broad fakery across multiple channels.
Questions This Video Answers
- How did Futurism verify Medv’s AI-generated ads and photos?
- What FDA warnings exist against Medv and their claims about TZepide/Transepide?
- Is there evidence that the NYT profile accurately represented Medv's business?
- What should consumers look for to spot AI-generated testimonials in health marketing?
- What are the legal risks of marketing unproven weight-loss drugs online?
MedvGLP-1 weight lossAI-generated adsFuturism investigationNew York Times coverageFDA warning letterClass-action lawsuitMeta Ads LibraryAI marketing ethics
Full Transcript
billion dollar AI company built on lies. Let me see this. TODAY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT A $ 1.8 billion company that's mostly built on lies, but you wouldn't know it from the New York Times article which went viral. And honestly, I was as deceived by it as many people were. I'm not a total AI skeptic. I have my criticisms, but when I saw the New York Times say that AI helped one man and his brother build a 1.8 billion company, I was interested. I wanted to know how they did it. And to be honest, based on how the article is written, I was really impressed.
You know, this guy has Medv. It's a tele health provider of GLP1 weight loss drugs. And the business just takes off right away because this guy has figured out the power of automating tasks with AI. And by 2025, Medy's first full year in business, the company generated $400 million in sales. This year, they're on track to do $1.8 billion. Now, that is just mindblowing. big way. This article credits AI. It says AI turbocharged it. Turbo. Wow. It's not an AI company, but I did it with AI. A $ 1.8 billion company with just two employees.
In the age of AI, it's increasingly possible on this kind of big prophetic idea from the AI bros, specifically Sam Alman, that this is sort of destined to happen because of how powerful AI is. a one person billion dollar without AI income will happen. So it's kind of the first version of a one person billion dollar firm and this article mentions that explicitly in an email Mr. Alman said it appeared he had won a bet over whether such a company would appear and he would like to meet the guy who had done it. So on the surface right it seems like the American dream.
A guy goes from not being very successful to all of a sudden out of nowhere he has this billion dollar company all because he prompted you know Chad GBT or whatever. But this is what they don't tell you behind the scenes right behind all the gloss snake oil. They don't tell you about the shady billing fake doctors warning letter from the FDA snake oil class action lawsuit fake before and after pictures and fake ads that this whole thing is basically built on. I'm not going to argue that in this story. You're also going to see a lot of allegations from actual customers of the company, which the New York Times doesn't spend a lot of time on.
In fact, they mentioned very briefly that like, oh, they did fake before and after photos with AI, but when some of these practices Oh, so that's how they used AI. They used AI to change the photos for before and after for the weight loss thing that they were selling. Well, that's a little bit different than using AI to make your company, isn't it? I feel like that's a lot different. our disgust. It's kind of cutting out like a very key partaking it. This is like saying that yeah, we helped the person lose 25 pounds. Well, what did you do?
Oh, well, we just had them lose some weight. Where? Oh, we cut off their leg. It now, you know, stop taking those shortcuts. Specifically, they say they were going to fix some of the shortcuts he had originally taken, like swapping out some of the before and after weight loss photos for ones with real customers. And really, the question for me is, is this a legitimate company? Are they scamming people? Did they do it the right way? Is this just AI apply? And that's that's kind of the conflict at the heart of this. So, I'm going to walk you through a lot of the evidence that the New York Times either glossed over or just explicitly didn't mention.
And I want to credit an amazing investigation by Futurism which basically investigated all of this in 2025 and specifically calls out things like their website featuring AI generated photos. Things like their product photos having AI generated text solution faux injection and futurism also are the people who actually found that this website was using fake photos. Well, specifically they were changing the photos. Here's a weight loss photo that had been circulating around the world by the Daily Mail. This was apparently a red the weight loss drug causes you to grow engaged in a weight loss challenge and over a period of time lost 35 lbs in one year.
Now over on Medv's website, they use the same guy. They added glasses to his face and a beard and said it's Michael P and he lost 48 pounds in 5 months. So they increase. How is this not just blatantly false advertising? Like I'm sorry, but if you're selling a weight loss drug and you're photoshopping faces on the people that didn't use it, I feel like that's just a scam. It's literally a scam. How is it not a scam? He was not their customer and they shortened the amount of time he took to do it. But I actually wanted to add on to Futurism's investigation here because I found they then later in the archive changed the picture entirely.
Okay. You'll see though that even though it's a completely different picture, totally different guy, totally different thing, it's still definitely a lie because the guy's name, the amount he lost, and the amount of time. Maybe they just found the a guy with the same name that lost the same weight in the same time. I mean, how do you know that lost it in? I mean, obviously, that's what it could be. They took their fake testimonial and just swapped out the photos. So, this whole thing is built online. If you dig into this, you're going to hear a lot that they blame affiliates for a lot of the shady marketing.
But I just want to be clear that these before and after photos were hosted on their website. Like this wasn't someone else who did this. They had this on their website. And although the New York Times goes through lengths to say, "Oh, they're fixing they're taking those away. They're going to fix all of this stuff." I just want to point out that as recently as last month, I mean, there's no way that this chick loses like what, 42 lbs and her boobs don't get smaller. Like, it's obviously [ __ ] fake. Like, I've seen so many fat chicks lose weight.
And it almost never goes this way. It's so uncommon. Like, I could tell you that's fake right away. I mean, it's Yeah, it's obvious [ __ ] man. This photo was on here. Okay. as recently as March. Total [ __ ] So, the idea that, oh, they're fixing it up. To me, it seems like they're fixing it up for a New York Times profile because this is where we need to get to the ads that are still running right now to this day for these GLP1 drugs that they're selling online. Because in addition to fake testimonials from customers, they also have a bunch of fake doctors promoting this stuff.
This is the meta ads library where fake drugs, fake advertisements, fake people, fake doctors, fake story. Everything's [ __ ] fake. You can see a series Dr. Sarah Martin and it's getting sponsored by the New York Times, Lena Fisher, all promoting guess who Medvy. And specifically, I want to show you that some of these ads are once again lying about before and after photos. Here's one about Medv. I got this Tzepide pen to try. So you don't have to. Been reading on it for months. Finally made the move. Ready to start. Feeling pumped. A bit nervous, but mostly excited.
60 days in and feeling [music] great. Look how much weight I've lost. All right, so these are supposedly the before and after videos. And it's obvious that this is AI generated. This is not a real doctor. It's also not a real It's literally not even a real person. Lies. And again, it's hard to distinguish. Is this an affiliate? Think about how many boomers that are getting farmed by this every single day. Wow. Not. But I just want you to understand this is still happening to this day. It's just a bunch of scammy Facebook ads of fake doctor accounts showing you AI slop fake patient testimonials.
And this is supposedly the great breakthrough in AI, right? This is supposedly the power of AI. I also want to show you we have to keep in mind that like a lot of the AI people and like the company like people like scam altman right uh you know people like him it's in their best interest to create these narratives because these narratives create attention around AI which indirectly helps their company is an allegation class action lawsuit filed specifically against open the [ __ ] do you have a company called open AI and then you take it private what What the [ __ ] do you call that?
I think Elon's right. Why the [ __ ] do you do this really? Like I mean it's insane. Health Inc. which is one of the partners of Medvy. And you'll see that a lot of the doctors that are on some of these websites cuz you have to understand Medv is just one of the most successful versions. There's a bunch of kind of copycats and they all kind of site this Dr. Dr. Anna Lisa Carr and Dr. Kelly Tinbrick, Dr. David Mansour. But here's what these same doctors look like on Medvy's website. Dr. Analisa Carr, Dr. David Mansour, Dr.
Kelly Tinbreak. It's the What did they Did they have Netflix do this? Same name, but different photos of these supposed Netflix adaptation. Now, unlike the Facebook fake doctors that are in all of these ads, these actually appear to be real people that exist, although their exact involvement is unclear. This is the Futurism article who actually contacted each doctor to ask if they could confirm their involvement with Medv, and one of them insisted he had nothing to do with either company and they need to remove him from their sites. There's also a massive allegation in this class action lawsuit which is that one of the key compounds that they're selling they claim is snake oil actually and just doesn't work explicitly.
This is the tzepide tablets. I don't know if oh somebody I I think that we're getting like coffee and I are probably old enough to where we're using this term but some people that are viewers might not know what that means. Snake oil is literally just fake medicine. It's fake. I think that we might Yeah, it's it's [ __ ] Okay, pronouncing that right. But that is a real compound that exists in some of the injections saying that this is an oral formulation. But the class action complaint alleges that the oral transepide is a product that's never been has no demonstrated mechanism of absorption or efficacy and functions as modernday snake oil.
A pharmacologically inert compound when delivered via a pill. The idea is that as an injection it would actually work. But because they're selling it as something you take like a pill, which is obviously more appealing to a lot of consumers, it is inert. And look, this is where I'll have to say I'm not a doctor, but Eli Liy, the people who actually manufacture this stuff, says there are no human studies, let alone clinical trials involving any oral turppatide product. Meaning anyone selling it is making unproven claims and is experimenting on unsuspecting Americans. Now, [snorts] oh well, we shouldn't use random people for experimentation.
Well, I don't believe in that. Well, you better start believing in it. It's happening to you right now. Now, that's a little bit different than, you know, the New York Times glowing article. Sounds a little bit different than the way it's all been framed as some like American dream story. I think that should have been included. I also want to mention that Medvi has gotten an FDA warning letter. Specifically, the warning includes quote your website's false and misleading claims concerning compound. I think it, you know, fat people are [ __ ] We all know this. And like I've know, y'all ever feel [ __ ] after you eat a lot of food?
Anybody ever feel [ __ ] You, you spend a lot of time eating a bunch of food and then you feel like your brain's kind of just like kind of Yeah. Right. So, imagine if you're 583 lbs. Think about how [ __ ] you have to be. Like, I mean, that person like, think about that. Like their brain has got to be like they got to be functioning on like an 81 IQ situation, right? I mean like think about how much food that they're like how much their body has to process. There's no blood going to the brain, bro.
Like it's just all it's all foodide and tzepide products. So really, when you dig into this stuff, this is a really shady website that took advantage of a loose regulatory regime to shove down a bunch of AI slop down people's throats in order to get them to buy products that in some cases, according to the people who actually make the product allegedly don't work in that form, or at least there's no evidence that it works. This is further borne out by some of the reviews where April, for example, who reviewed this product, says, "Almost $2,000 spent, and not only did I not lose weight, but I gained.
Finally, someone said that the or fat April in Tennessee." That's right. You should have bought a [ __ ] treadmill instead. Too bad. That's right. The magic pill that makes you lose weight without having to do anything. Guess what? It didn't [laughter] work. oral doesn't work and I should do the injection. That was when I knew I was done. This person says, I took the oral turepide appointment. They said orals don't work and switch me to injections. This review gives one star and they say, I'm beyond frustrated with this company. I chose the oral medication for ease of use of the product.
It was delivered very wet and immediately started melting and was finally told on the third week that I should not be taking a defective product. Wendy gave it one star and said medication was deemed ineffective. Trina says do not buy oral tursepit. It doesn't work. They don't tell you this during the appointment. They accept your money and let you FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF and maybe just as bad. Some of the billing practices, of course, are shady, which is what you'd expect. No way. So, the people selling you fake medicine also steal your money. Who could have ever guessed that?
A company like this. Horrible. Buyer beware. They charge my credit card without sending any medication. Like many people in these reviews, I did not receive the product, but was charged $3.99 and then told I would get a refund. then later was told they don't refund. So, I hope by now you can see why I'm a bit annoyed and feel like I have to give the other side of the story when I see an article like this that uncritically lifts up a company for getting a massive amount of sales for sure, but how they got those sales is just as important, if not more important.
I mean, this is the exact opposite of a success. It's not important as long as it's not a scam, right? I mean, you could say it's important inside of like a, you know, like a Forbes, you know, business deep dive, but like damn, bro, he's upset. Look at that. Wow. So, but it's not important directly to like an average user other than their dollars. And that's what's so worrying is if anything, this is a warning sign about where we're going with AI where all the doctors, all the lawyers you see online are fake. All the reviews you see are totally fake.
the person who's telling you this product saved their life. They're completely AI generated. It's just not a great outcome. And this story is the medicine's fake, the reviews are fake, the website's fake, the doctors are fake. [laughter] The medicine doesn't work. [laughter] As soon as they get your credit card information, they steal your money. Oh my god. Anything is [laughter] a sign. So yeah, I've taken pains TO NOW YOU'RE FATTER AUTHOR of this article now as well as the person who ran Medv instead. I specifically want to shout out Maggie Dup pre who did a great job investigating this back in 2025.
Her work unfortunately got a lot less attention, but it's a great piece of journalism. So anyways, that's basically it. I've noticed that. I have. I've noticed that a lot where people that do good journalism, nobody pays attention to it. But people with good thumbnails, everybody watches that instead. So the only thing they lost was money, I guess. So it's just so [ __ ] ridiculous because you just Yeah. And again, so I could just lie and steal money. Yeah. That's the way it works now. It is. And I know it sounds crazy, but uh you know, like that's just how it
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