When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. A deepfake video of Nvidia's CEO sent thousands of viewers to a crypto scam Reportedly, the fake video had almost 100,000 live YouTube viewers at one point--far more than the real keynote stream hosted by Nvidia. Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference isn't making many waves for gamer or PC hardware crowds this year, perhaps because it seems to be exclusively interested in boosting hardware for "AI" and data centers. So it's almost ironic that a phony version of the keynote livestream reportedly relied on generative "AI" to fake CEO Jensen Huang and send viewers to a cryptocurrency scam. A YouTube channel calling itself "NVIDIA LIVE" started a livestream shortly after the real Nvidia event began, which users on Twitter reported was a deepfake video of the CEO promoting a "crypto mass adoption event."

Mandela Fadahunsi, who works at a technical training school in Ikeja in Nigeria's Lagos, never believed he could fall victim to a Ponzi scheme. On April 6, the 26-year-old was starting his day when a WhatsApp notification lit up his phone screen. Someone on the group chat for investors of the cryptocurrency investment platform, Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX), had tried and failed to withdraw some funds, so they wanted to confirm if it was a general issue. Fadahunsi quickly logged on to his digital wallet and tried to withdraw 500 USDT, a cryptocurrency that stands for United States Dollar Tether, or simply Tether. But 24 hours later, a process that should have taken just 10 minutes was yet to complete.

OpenAI opened a newsroom Twitter account earlier this month and it's already been hacked. The new handle was taken over by a crypto scammer promoting a fake OpenAI token that was in reality a scam to steal Bitcoins. That follows similar hacks of three key OpenAI employee X accounts over the last 15 months, including the one belonging to CTO Mira Murati. The fraudster enticed potential victims by saying the OpenAI token is somehow "driven by artificial intelligence-based language models." It then threw in a jumble of crypto and AI buzzwords that were probably enough to lure in some gullible users.

Erica is on YouTube, detailing how much it costs to hire a divorce attorney in the state of Massachusetts. Dr. Dass is selling private medical insurance in the UK. But Jason has been on Facebook spreading disinformation about France's relationship with its former colony, Mali. And Gary has been caught impersonating a CEO as part of an elaborate crypto scam. They're deepfakes, let loose into the wild by Victor Riparbelli, CEO of Synthesia.

Ever since the release of ChatGPT last year, new generative AI tools and services have captured people's attention. Now, Meta is warning that bad actors have taken notice of interest in AI chatbots. The Facebook parent said scammers are creating malware that poses at ChatGPT and similar tools. In a security report released Wednesday, Meta said it discovered 10 malware families posing as ChatGPT or related tools since March. Some of the malicious software, which can steal your personal information and compromise accounts, came in the form of browser extensions and links.

As the buzz around ChatGPT and other generative AI increases, so has scammers' interest in the tech. In a new report published by Meta, the company says it's seen a sharp uptick in malware disguised as ChatGPT and similar AI software. In a statement, the company said that since March of 2023 alone, its researchers have discovered "ten malware families using ChatGPT and other similar themes to compromise accounts across the internet" and that it's blocked more than 1,000 malicious links from its platform. According to Meta, the scams often involve mobile apps or browser extensions posing as ChatGPT tools. And while in some cases the tools do offer some ChatGPT functionality, their real purpose is to steal their users' account credentials.

The recent proliferation and popularity of artificial intelligence-powered software that can produce imagery based on text prompts means that creating AI-generated images, videos and sometimes even voices is no longer something that can be undertaken by a select few. Now, pretty much anyone with a digital device can use online software to generate such content. McAfee predicts that these tools will empower scammers, propagandists and other cyber criminals who want to influence public opinion. These tools will also allow criminals to create counterfeit and manipulated images without the need for professional expertise. With the fallout surrounding the bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX and the fall from the grace of its founder Sam Bankman-Fried, there has been a lot of uncertainty surrounding the Web3 industry.

After two months, Tho Vu was infatuated. The 33-year-old customer service agent, living in Maryland, had met "Ze Zhao" through a dating app, and says she quickly began exchanging messages with him all day on WhatsApp. He seemed like someone she could rely on--he called her "little princess" and sent her reminders to drink enough water. By October 2021, despite never having met in person, they were talking about where to buy a house, how many kids to have, even how he hoped she'd do a home birth. "I want to take you with me when I do anything," he said, in messages seen by TIME.

A woman said she lost $390,000 after falling for an online crypto dating scam and wants to warn others. Nicole Hutchinson, of Tennessee, told CBS News not only did she lose her own money, but her father's, too while attempting to make friends before moving to California. Hutchinson inherited her mother's house after she died and decided to sell the property. She split the profit with her father and inherited $280,000 that was supposed to be used to help her family build a life in California. The 24-year-old decided to try the online dating site Hinge and matched with a man named "Hao" while visiting a friend in the state, the New York Times reported.