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Viral images of artists like her or Rihanna were nothing more than deepfakes
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Even so, there were social media users who believed that the images were real
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The implications are scary: this type of false images can end up influencing future electoral processes, for example
The Met Gala is one of the biggest events of the year for celebrities. The event is a showcase for personalities and couturiers, and the extravagant designs and accessories usually create a lot of talk there. This year there has been another indirect protagonist of that celebration: deepfakes created with AI.
Deepfakes of Katy Perry and Rihanna. These two famous artists did not attend the event, but images still appeared on social networks that placed them there. They were not real images, but AI-generated deepfakes that confused some fans.
Twitter detects the deception. Some users of these platforms detected that these images were fake, but also on Twitter (now X) the so-called “community notes” were shown. https://twitter.com/STONKS_IU/status/1787644617480933445. These notices allow useful information to be added to the publications of this social network, often serving as a way to identify whether a news item or image is real.
That’s not Katy Perry. That’s exactly what happened with Katy Perry, who appeared in several viral images with a striking dress covered in flowers. Among the details that helped detect that the image was a deepfake was the one that showed the same carpet as at the 2018 event (which both Rihanna and Katy Perry attended), and not the fabric with green tones from this year that was also covered in vegetation.
But his mother thought he was.. The curious thing is that as indicated in the Associated Press, that deepfake of Katy Perry managed to deceive her own mother. The artist published on her Instagram account a screenshot of her conversation with her mother in which she admired her dress. Her daughter answered “lol mom, the AI caught you, BE CAREFUL!”
Rihanna, also a victim of deepfakes. Another of the images that went viral https://twitter.com/tereluprados/status/1787618574564999346 attending in a spectacular dress that was also covered in floral designs. However, it was not her: although her attendance was initially confirmed, Voge’s representatives indicated that she ultimately did not go to the Met Gala. Media such as People revealed that she had caught the flu and that is why she did not attend the event.
Suspicious training. The agency Getty Images is the one that captures and publishes those images, and last year they sued Stability AI alleging that the startup had copied more than 12 million images from the Getty image bank without permission. Recently the agency has created its own image generator trained with its images, but it is suspected that the images of Perry and Rihanna were created precisely thanks to having been trained with previous images of the Met Gala published by Getty.
Worry. As happened in the past with images of Pope Francis or Donald Trump, these deepfakes are worrying about the influence and damage they can cause on the users of these networks. The case of Taylor Swift was especially notable recently, and some suggest that this type of deception could even influence electoral processes.
Image | https://twitter.com/jxries/status/1787603212075233371 | https://twitter.com/tereluprados/status/1787618574564999346
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