AI-generated "health professionals" are dispensing bogus advice and even prescribing medicines to unsuspecting Australians.

Multiple Facebook pages have been detected falsely purporting to belong to doctors specialising in dermatology, men's health, weight loss, sex therapy and other specialist medical fields.

However, the doctors don't exist and images of them have been generated using artificial intelligence technology.

According to the Australian Medical Association, the professional body representing the nation's real doctors, the profiles potentially undermine trust in the profession.

To its president, Dr Danielle McMullen, they're outright "dangerous".

Accounts, a number of which have been scrutinised by AAP FactCheck, commonly feature a biography introducing the fictitious medi

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