While huge celebrities like Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, and Kim Kardashian walked the green carpet at the Met Gala on Monday, others who couldn’t make it were seemingly there in spirit through the magic of AI. Some artificially created photos were so realistic, even relatives were fooled. Just ask Katy Perry’s mom.
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AI Images Flood Social Media After Met Gala
The “Dark Horse” singer shared several photos to her social media on Monday evening that depicted AI images of the star posing for photos on the Met carpet. In one image, Perry is pictured wearing an opulent green floral gown with her hair in loose waves. In another, her hair appears wet while she dons a gold corset top and a leafy skirt. In another photo, Perry shared a screenshot of a text conversation with her mom.
“Ha Feather! Didn’t know you went to the Met. What a gorgeous gown, you look like the Rose Parade, you are your own float lol,” her mom texted, along with a copy of an AI photo of Perry.
“Lol mom the AI got you too, BEWARE!” Perry responded to her mom’s text.
Perry captioned the photos, “Couldn’t make it to the MET, had to work.”
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AI Photos Of Rihanna, Lady Gaga Go Viral
AI photos of celebrities at the Met Gala flooded social media as the event took place. Photos of Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Dua Lipa, supposedly at the gala, fooled many, but some were wise enough to point out the fakes. While Lipa was at the gala, the AI photos that circulated of her were fake.
AI photos aren’t anything new, but the technology is getting so advanced that sometimes, the photos are indistinguishable from actual photos. While some AI photos are sloppily edited, with extra fingers or distorted faces, some are actually so lifelike that they appear real.
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“AI-generated images are increasingly easy to make, and celebrity deep fakes are increasingly prevalent—from sexually explicit deep fakes of Taylor Swift circulating earlier this year to robocalls imitating President Biden ahead of the New Hampshire primary,” reported NPR.
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Artists Sign Petition To Stop AI In Music Industry
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In April, more than 200 artists—including Kate Hudson, Billie Eilish, Camila Cabello, Kacey Musgraves, and Katy Perry herself—signed a petition asking “AI developers, technology companies, platforms and digital music services to cease the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists.”
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AI ‘Poses Enormous Threats’ To Artists
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“When used irresponsibly, AI poses enormous threats to our ability to protect our privacy, our identities, our music and our livelihoods. Some of the biggest and most powerful companies are, without permission, using our work to train AI models. These efforts are directly aimed at replacing the work of human artists with massive quantities of AI-created ‘sounds’ and ‘images’ that substantially dilute the royalty pools that are paid out to artists,” the petition stated.
“We call on all AI developers, technology companies, platforms and digital music services to pledge that they will not develop or deploy AI music-generation technology, content or tools that undermine or replace the human artistry of songwriters and artists or deny us fair compensation for our work.”
Swift Victim Of AI Images
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