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Purported AI-Generated Deepfake Images of Katy Perry at 2024 Met Gala Circulate Widely
- Occurred
- May 6, 2024
- Published
- May 6, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown
Harmed parties
- Katy Perry
- General public
- Fans of Katy Perry
- Epistemic integrity
Tags
- deepfake image
- synthetic media
- celebrity impersonation
- soft deception
- epistemic distortion
- viral misinformation
- no confirmed concrete harm
- public misrecognition
- no known malicious actor
- low-stakes deception
- recurring pattern
- Katy Perry
- Met Gala
- media event impersonation
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated images deceived public and celebrity family, causing confusion but no physical harm or legal action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8