Kate Garraway slams 'hurtful' AI boyfriend prank

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00:00and ai was even used to create a photo of me actually and an unidentified man which has

00:07prompted a year of rumors of a new relationship um it's completely untrue the picture is fabricated

00:14and i'll tell you the impact of that in a moment we'll talk about about a year ago almost the day

00:19of derek passing away so quite a raw time uh for myself and the children these things started

00:24happening mainly on facebook and there are lots i want to say actually there are lots that i don't

00:29do facebook there are lots of fake facebook kate garraway accounts and they were appearing almost

00:35like a celebration on these accounts of me and people i only became aware when people came up to

00:39me on the street and said oh i'm so pleased that you found love now i didn't react badly at that

00:45point because i just thought it was quite sweet that they cared and they were going through grief

00:49themselves and we had lovely conversations but the turning point was towards the end of last year when

00:54these ai bot sites pretending to be news sites were then doing whole things about how my son was

01:02destroying the relationship because of his selfishness and missing his dad and i thought

01:07thought this is awful because his teachers could be reading this