Overview

• On BBC One’s Morning Live, daughter Rebecca Wilcox denounced fabricated AI images showing her mother in a hospital coma as “appalling.”
• The family published real photos from Rantzen’s 85th birthday celebration showing her beaming in a yellow dress and walking through her garden.
• Scam expert Rav Wilding identified anomalies in the fake images, including misaligned IV drip labels and distorted medical equipment.
• Since her January 2023 stage four lung cancer diagnosis, Rantzen has publicly backed legislation to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales.
• Wilcox called on social media companies to tighten AI content policies to prevent harmful misinformation about patients’ health.