This year's Met Gala was attended by a memorable list of guest musicians, including Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa, Janelle Monáe and Cardi B, but Katy Perry was not among them. However, AI-generated photos of the singer on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art fooled many people into thinking otherwise, including her own mother.
AI renderings of Perry “attending” the annual event quickly went viral on Monday night, reportedly showing the performer wearing a billowing floral dress that would have fit the “Garden of Time” dress code. So many social media users were fooled into believing she went to the Met Gala that Perry herself had to debunk the images.
“I couldn't make it to the MET, I had to work,” Perry clarified in the caption of a photo. instagram carousel with two of the fake photos. He also shared a text message from her mother, Mary Hudson: “I didn't know you were going to the Met. What a beautiful dress, you look like the Rose Parade, you are your own float.”
Perry responded, “Haha mom, the AI got you too, BEWARE.” Check out the Instagram post below.
It's worth noting that Perry was among 200 artists who recently signed an open letter calling for tech platforms and streaming services to stop using AI to “infringe and devalue the rights of human artists.”
Katy Perry wasn't the only celebrity to go viral for her AI-generated photos this year. Alleged images of Rihanna and Lady Gaga It was also widely circulated on social media.
This isn't the first time a fake Met Gala image has fooled Twitter. An alleged photo of Jason Derulo falling down the stairs at the event first went viral in 2015 and still circulates almost every year. despite having been long discredited. Now that AI is more accessible, the problem will only get worse.
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