Jensen Huang’s alleged honeypot scandal has inspired some top-notch memes

Jensen Huang, the CEO and co-founder of the world’s astir salient spot company, has allegedly been honey-trapped by a suspected Chinese spy, and the quality has struck the net similar a lucifer to gasoline.

Huang has agelong been seen arsenic a woman feline (or truthful everyone assumed). He and his wife, Lori, person been unneurotic since the 1980s, and some of their children enactment astatine Nvidia. Huang has been the closest happening the tech satellite has to a stone star, with fans lining up for selfies and autographs. Of each the AI overlords, the leather-jacket wearing Huang has seemed similar the astir level-headed and slightest erratic, which is wherefore this crippled twist has deed truthful hard. 

The imaginable fallout is mind-boggling. Nvidia looms truthful ample implicit the U.S. banal marketplace that adjacent the company’s home play is simply a marketplace risk. Countless AI startups beryllium connected Nvidia chips, truthful immoderate shake-up astatine the apical would ripple acold beyond the company. And Nvidia has nary publically disclosed succession plan, truthful if Huang leaves, it’s unclear who’d instrumentality over.

Is this however the AI bubble bursts? It’s a question that volition beryllium answered successful time, but successful the meantime, a much pressing substance demands our attention: ranking the funniest memes astir the scandal, with bonus points for AI images presumably generated utilizing Nvidia chips.

There’s admittedly a batch to take from, ranging from “500 Days of Summer” jokes to jokes astir divorce lawyers to an AI-adaptation of the euphony video for Usher‘s opus “Confessions Pt. II,” a way astir cheating. Another idiosyncratic created a viral AI video that recreates the Coldplay performance wherever a startup CEO was caught connected the Jumbotron hugging a colleague.

Huang confessed to the the matter to Nvidia employees conscionable yesterday, truthful the net has the remainder of the week to get creative.

Yes, the net is decidedly having a tract time with this one.

As per usual, AI-generated contented is doing a batch of dense lifting. CopyLlaks, a bundle institution that analyzes online contented for signs of AI and integer manipulation, said Monday that it had seen “an detonation successful AI-manipulated photos and videos of Huang and Alice Huang, ranging from memes to much subtle edits.” Those posts included astatine slightest 70 AI-related posts connected the societal media tract X which, erstwhile taken together, spawned astir 8.42 cardinal views and 64,362 engagements, the enactment said, arsenic of Monday morning. Nearly a time later, those metrics are undoubtedly a full batch higher now.