The American singer Katy Perry deceived the Internet users after she published a photo manipulated by artificial intelligence, showing her arriving at the Met Gala.
Katie posted a picture showing her in a big dress decorated with lots of flowers, standing on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and accompanied the picture with the comment, “It was able to attend the Met Gala, I had to work.”
The singer posted a second picture of herself wearing a tight metallic shirt and floral skirt, in an outfit reminiscent of Amazonian warriors.
On Tuesday morning, the singer’s post received more than 1.2 million likes on Instagram. Photos of the “Firework” singer, which were created using deepfake technology, were spread across other social platforms such as “X”, and many netizens believed that they are real.
Among them is the singer’s mother, with whom Katie posted a screenshot of a conversation. The mother says to Katie: “I didn’t know you went to the Met Gala,” and the singer replies with a smile and says, “You were also fooled by artificial intelligence, be careful.”
Released other fake videos of stars who were not present at the party, including Rihanna and Selena Gomez.
The most popular internet posts for these images were accompanied by messages warning social media users that these images were created by artificial intelligence.
While some stars, such as Katy Perry, have used these tools for communication purposes, the spread of artificial intelligence has given a new impetus to the deep phenomenon, especially in terms of manipulative images, which have acquired a sexual nature for harassment or harassment. frighten those involved.
In January, a fake pornographic image of the star Taylor Swift got 47 million views on the X platform before the social network deleted it about fifteen hours later.
In February, twenty digital giants, including Meta (Instagram and Facebook), TikTok, and X, pledged to use technologies that monitor and report innovative content with intelligence software artificial in a more efficient way.
