Summary
- A fake YouTube broadcast featured Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang promoting cryptocurrencies.
- The scam used deepfake to deceive viewers, encouraging the sending of cryptocurrencies via QR code, while Nvidia’s official event was taking place.
- The live stream reached around 100 thousand simultaneous viewers and was later removed by the platform.
Thousands of people were fooled by a fake Nvidia YouTube broadcast. The live broadcast showed a deepfake of CEO Jensen Huang, who talked about investing in cryptocurrencies — all while the company’s real event, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), was taking place live in Washington (USA).
The fraud was transmitted by a channel that presented itself as Nvidia Liveand had around 100 thousand simultaneous spectators, surpassing the audience of the official conference, which at the same time registered just over 20 thousand people, according to the website PC Gamer.
How was the fake broadcast made?
The video featured Huang’s avatar, which claimed to postpone the reason for the conference to “promote a mass cryptocurrency adoption event that directly connects to Nvidia’s mission to accelerate human progress.”
The deepfake also encouraged the public to scan a QR code on the screen and send cryptocurrencies to participate in the supposed initiative. There is no information about the number of possible victims of this scam.
The stream is still up with nearly 100,000 viewers. What is YouTube doing? pic.twitter.com/4uReZrTkFD
— Semiconductor News by Dylan Martin (@DylanOnChips) October 28, 2025
The magazine editor CRNDylan Martin, reported on X that, at the height of the confusion, the fake broadcast had five times more viewers than Nvidia’s official channel.
The scam was facilitated by the large number of public videos by Jensen Huang — the executive presented four GTC conferences this year alone —, which makes it easier to create realistic deepfakes, as recalled by the Engadget.
Fraud occurs as Nvidia shares soar
The episode happened at a time when Nvidia became the most valuable company on the planet, surpassing the US$5 trillion mark in market value after an increase of more than 4% in shares. Growth is strongly linked to the advancement of artificial intelligence — ironically, the same technology used in the coup.
Although Nvidia develops deepfake detection tools in partnership with startups, experts believe that episodes like this are likely to become more frequent. It is worth remembering that OpenAI launched Sora this month, an application capable of transforming texts or images into realistic videos — and which has already required the creation of new security mechanisms.
Source: https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/transmissao-falsa-da-nvidia-engana-milhares-de-pessoas/
