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A sophisticated AI-generated scam has been targeting viewers on YouTube by impersonating Elon Musk and his companies, Tesla and SpaceX. The scam involves deepfake videos of Musk promoting fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes during supposed live streams of significant events, such as Tesla's 10/10 Robo taxi launch and SpaceX's Starship 5 speech. The videos employ high-quality voice cloning and lip-syncing techniques to deceive viewers. Reports indicate that tens of thousands of viewers have been affected by the crypto scam, with one stream attracting 50,000 live viewers.
Be careful folks - there's an incredibly convincing crypto scam happening on Youtube right now on an imposter channel pretending to be @SpaceX - the account is doing a "livestream" of the launch which is a highly produced and pretty convincing deepfake of Elon encouraging ppl to… https://t.co/XgftUxiU4Y
Generative AI crypto *scam* live now on YouTube @elonmusk appears to advertise a @SpaceX crypto investment scheme during his Starship 5 speech Voice clone + high quality lipsync in loop. 50000 live viewers https://t.co/9XvqoquffE
This is a wild AI scam. I just tried to find the Space X launch video to watch with my kids. YouTube had a live stream in the search results that appeared as if by Space-X. And clearly an AI dupe to scam people into donating crypto! @elonmusk https://t.co/k3T8rmAZPP