The Nvidia “affair” has taken the world by storm, a story straight out of a thriller: the founder of one of the world’s most valuable companies had an extramarital relationship with a woman who, according to US intelligence, is a spy for China.As Jensen Huang’s affair with Alice Huang continues to be memed over and over, people have also taken to sharing photos of the alleged Chinese spy, some of which appear to sexualise her quite a bit. One set of photos purportedly shows Jensen signing Alice’s tight-fitting top.Similarly, another photo shows a woman in a glamorous red gown.
An X user shared this image with the caption, “This is Alice Huang, the Chinese spy who Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with.”India Today Fact Check found that neither of these photos show Alice Huang. OUR PROBEReverse-searching the first photo led us to a South China Morning Post report from June 5, 2024.
According to the report, this photo was taken during the Computex 2024 trade show in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, on June 4, 2024, and Jensen autographing a female fan’s top sparked a frenzy on social media at the time.The woman had posted the photo of her signed top on Instagram story and had written, “Adrenaline rush today, my wish fulfilled! I shook hands with the ‘AI Godfather’, and he also signed my phone case and clothes.
Hoping for great fortune this year!” Some Chinese news reports had also featured a screenshot of her Instagram story. Additionally, some reports had attributed the video to an Instagram account “@emma.i.do0629”.
We found that this account ( https://www.instagram.com/emma.l.do0629/ ) belongs to a woman named Emma Lin, who has mentioned Taiwan and the UK as locations in her bio.THE SECOND PHOTOSeveral X users reacted to the claiming it was AI-generated. We ran this image through multiple AI image detection tools like Pangram, Hive Moderation, and Sightengine.
All identified the image as either AI-generated or AI-manipulated.We found a similar photo in a New York Post report, in which Alice Huang's outfit looks similar — though not as revealing as in the viral photo.Alice Huang's actual photos can be seen in this CNN report. Thus, it’s clear that none of these photos is of Alice Huang.- Ends