2 days Ago By Calum Jaspan and David Swan
7News’ YouTube channel appears to have been hacked, with its 1.71 million subscribers being shown a live-streamed AI-generated Elon Musk cryptocurrency scam. About 60,000 people were watching one live stream and 45,000 were watching another as of 11.
10am on Thursday before they were taken down. A screengrab from a live video on the 7News YouTube channel showing an AI-generated Elon Musk. The stream showed an artificial intelligence representation of Musk – the owner and chief executive of Tesla – touting a cryptocurrency scam while standing in front of a Tesla car.
Later, two more streams were uploaded showing a Tesla launch event for its cybertruck in 2023. Seven’s main YouTube channel has been taken down and hyperlinks to the page are broken, with a message displayed saying it is unavailable. A Seven spokesman said it was aware that some of its branded YouTube channels were not appearing as they should.
7News’ YouTube channel has been rebranded as a Tesla account. Credit: The Age “Seven is investigating and working with YouTube to resolve the situation as soon as possible,” the spokesman said. YouTube has been contacted for comment.
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Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. License this article Media & marketing Seven West Media AI Scams Calum Jaspan is a media writer for The Sydney Mornin.
