AI-generated images are being used to front social media accounts for fake medical professionals. Photo: AAP/Facebook

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

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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 Associa

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