This senior citizen doing stuff got me. I bought a pair of cow slippers because I thought he was making them from his farm in Australia. Turns out they use that same "character" to hawk multiple products.
YouTuber Pleasant Green has several videos about all those fake ads making rounds. The one about fake old people is this one:
Every risk the early AI researchers warned us about came true, the companies released it anyway and here we are.
Unfortunately at this point I assume that everything I see online is fake until I have a good reason to think otherwise.