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Nvidia Scandal Unleashes a Flood of AI-Generated Memes
The revelations surrounding Jensen Huang, who resigned from Nvidia over extramarital affairs, inspired social media posts using the very technology his company helped develop.
They were so entwined that, this year, the company sold $178 sweaters with a pixel-art version of Mr. Huang’s resignation on Thursday after back-to-back cheating scandals, including an extramarital affair with a woman the U.S. government believes is a Chinese spy, the internet has taken ahold of his image to unleash a flood of memes.
In many cases, they are being made by A.I. enthusiasts who revered Mr. Huang have appeared in online parodies of music videos, Bollywood movies, American sitcoms and kiss-cams at Coldplay concerts — many generated using artificial intelligence, the technology that became widely available through the chips Nvidia produces.
Huang, 63, one of the most powerful figures in the A.I. boom, are part of a long list of infidelity scandals that became memes. Last year, the married chief executive of a tech start-up was caught on a kiss-cam at a Coldplay concert embracing the married but separated head of his company’s human resources department.
