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. Jensen Huang and his leather-clad likeness had become synonymous with the technological giant he co-founded, Nvidia. They were so entwined that, this year, the company sold $178 sweaters with a pixel-art version of Mr. Huang on the front.

Now, in the wake 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. Images of 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. The revelations about Mr. 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.