Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live

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By Cheyenne MacDonaldJun 23, 2024, 4:07 pm197 pts
A YouTube Live broadcast that ran for five hours today used a deepfake of Elon Musk to push a cryptocurrency scam. The video, which has has since been taken down, showed a clip of Musk that was meant to look like a livestream from a Tesla event, with an AI-generated version of his voice instructing viewers to…

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