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Over 40% of Americans have felt duped by AI ads, survey suggests

The survey found more than half of respondents don't trust AI-advertised products to match their descriptions; the lamp, sadly, remains a bowl.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Chip Darnell on #Trending
Published 2:39 PM ET, Friday, October 16, 2026

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Watch it as it aired: Kenji Moonfield and Chip Darnell on this story, from #Trending at 2:39 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are New York Post's, the jokes are ours.

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First reported by New York Post: “Over 40% of Americans have felt duped by AI ads before, new survey suggests”.
Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 2:39 PM ET on #Trending, by Kenji Moonfield and Chip Darnell.
Topics: Americans, AI.
BBN covered this story before: Five everyday costs rising, and AI wants personal prices (October 15).

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New York PostOver 40% of Americans have felt duped by AI ads before, new survey suggests

What BBN said about it

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe New York Post reported on October sixteenth, twenty twenty-six, that over forty percent of Americans say they have felt duped by an AI ad.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMore than half said they don't trust products advertised with AI to match their descriptions. So I'm basically in the survey.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the ad shows a thing, and then a different thing shows up at your door?
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYes. I ordered a lamp that glowed like a sunset. It arrived as a beige bowl.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA bowl?
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA lovely bowl, Chip. Not a lamp. That's the whole trick with these ads.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThis is why I buy everything at the strip mall, where I can squeeze it first. Nobody has ever lied to me through a melon.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHashtag bowlamp. One word, no refunds.

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