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Comment by bjamesking | Hacker News Reader

I was watching a youtube stream with tens of thousands of viewers and 20 seconds before launch it switched to an AI generated video of Elon on stage talking about his "crypto currency program". It was so well executed and generated, it nearly felt real.

The violent anger I felt and still feel for scammers has ruined my day.

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They do this every launch unfortunately. Youtube seems completely inept at stopping them. They make enough money to hire hundreds of thousands of fake accounts to subscribe.

Musk choosing to abandon YouTube to push his other company didn’t help.

True, but even before that there were fake spacex streams (complete with a 'verified account' symbol) with 10k+ alleged viewers.

These are reruns.

Same here. I was actively showing the (scammed) live stream to my 4yo daughter, and had to switch back to the live version for yet another 10minutes of wait.

Quite the embarassment, I think I begin to understand how my parents feel when they are completely unaware of some technical aspects I try to explain, and how easy it would be to scam them. Seems like it is getting easier to scam me, too.

To be fair, once they switched to Fakelon, it was quite clear. But I started the same stream again later as the YT app does not properly highlight the channel's name before clicking.

They run even on daya when there's no launch or Elon presentation, I've watched one because I thought I missed some announcement.

YT and Google has a vested interest to defame Elon.

It’s very clear — all the MSM are top of the list for anything Trump related, and for Elon it’s all crypto scam channels

It’s intentional folks

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