Purported AI-Generated Deepfake Images of Katy Perry at 2024 Met Gala Circulate Widely
May 6, 2024
Purported AI-generated images depicting Katy Perry attending the 2024 Met Gala circulated widely on social media, leading to public confusion about her presence at the event. The images were realistic enough to deceive fans and even Perry’s mother, who believed them to be authentic. Perry publicly clarified the images were fake, attributing them to AI and noting she had missed the event due to work.
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- Alleged harmed parties
- truth, katy-perry, general-public, fans-of-katy-perry
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1058
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