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Incident #1059·Misinformation

Second Consecutive Year of Alleged AI-Generated Images Depicting Katy Perry at Met Gala Circulating Online

May 6, 20251 reportsView on AIID

Description

Images widely reported to be AI-generated appeared to depict Katy Perry attending the Met Gala and circulated broadly online, which appeared to prompt confusion among some fans. Perry later clarified via Instagram that she had not attended the event. While no malicious actor or harm has been confirmed, this marks the second consecutive year such images have gone viral

Actors

Alleged Deployers

unknown

Alleged Developers

deepfake-technology-developers

Harmed Parties

katy-perry
general-public
fans-of-katy-perry
epistemic-integrity

Classification

Risk Domain

Misinformation

Risk Subdomain

3.1. False or misleading information

MIT Risk Profile

AIOtherPost-deployment

Source

Databaseaiid

LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0

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Source Reports(1 total)

Katy Perry's Met Gala AI-Generated Deep Fake Stumps Fans Again (but Not Her Mom This Time)

people.com· May 2025

AI Incident Database (AIID), MIT AI Risk Initiative. Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID), MIT AI Risk Initiative. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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