Australian broadcaster 7News’ YouTube channel livestreamed a crypto-touting deep fake Elon Musk, which garnered hundreds of thousands of views.
The YouTube channel for the news organization of major Australian broadcaster, the Seven Network, has been hijacked with videos showing a deep fake Elon Musk crypto scam.
7News’ YouTube channel was rebranded to appear as automaker Tesla and showed an artificial intelligence-generated fake of the firm’s CEO saying he’s giving away crypto.
A deep fake Elon Musk on the hijacked 7News YouTube channel. Source: YouTube
About 150,000 in total were viewing three livestreams showing the fake Musk on the 7News channel at the time of writing. It’s unknown how many viewers are bots in a bid to boost viewership numbers.
The AI-faked Musks were touting a common “double your money” scam — promising to send back double the amount of any crypto sent to an address.
Links to the 7News YouTube channel were broken, but the hijacked channel still showed the news organization’s verification tick.
