Deepfake of Nvidia CEO Used in Cryptocurrency Scam Livestream
A deepfake video of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was broadcast on YouTube during the company's GTC keynote on October 28, 2025, attracting up to 100,000 viewers with a fraudulent cryptocurrency scam. The fake livestream significantly outperformed the official event's viewership and remained visible as the top search result before removal.
What happened
On October 28, 2025, during Nvidia's GTC keynote in Washington, DC, a deepfake video of CEO Jensen Huang was broadcast on YouTube on a channel called NVIDIA Live, promoted as a cryptocurrency investment opportunity.
The fake stream peaked at 95,000 to 100,000 concurrent viewers, significantly more than the official keynote's 12,000 to 20,000 concurrent viewers at the same time. The fraudulent stream was the top YouTube result for searches of 'Nvidia GTC DC' and remained live for nearly an hour before removal.
The deepfake Huang promoted a 'crypto mass adoption event' and directed viewers to scan a QR code to participate in a 'crypto distribution' platform, though the deepfake presentation featured stilted delivery and odd pacing that some viewers found unconvincing.
Reported impact
The scam reached approximately 100,000 viewers through the livestream platform, though the number and nature of actual victims is unclear. It is unknown whether any of the viewers sent money to the scammers.
Index analysis
The incident demonstrates the relative ease of creating convincing deepfakes with the abundance of video footage of Jensen Huang from multiple GTC conferences, which bad actors can use as training data for AI video generation systems.
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Sources and evidence
This record was researched and written by the Index, based on the following original reporting.