They spread in social networks photographs of singer Katy Perry posing on the red carpet of the Met Gala 2025, held on May 5 at the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York. It is false. These images have been created with artificial intelligence (AI) and the singer herself has confirmed through Instagram that she has not attended the New York event.
“Katy Perry in the Met Gala 2025” we read in English in a shared publication more than 7,000 times in x from the early hours of May 6. The photograph shows the California singer wearing a black dress with an upper part that simulates a blazer With diplomatic stripes of dark tones and a skirt of a material similar to latex, bright and very tight to the body, which extends to the ground. In addition, the text that accompanies the photographs is attributed to the photography agency Getty images.
These photographs of Katy Perry posing on the red carpet of the Met Gala 2025 are false. The singer has not attended the fashion event held on Monday, May 5 in New York. The American artist herself has clarified that she has not attended the MET Gala 2025 through a publication in her official Instagram account: “I couldn’t get to MET, I’m on the tour. This year I was with my mother, so she is safe from the Botsbut I’m praying for the rest of you. “In this post, The artist includes the photographs created with artificial intelligence and several captures of publications of network profiles that claim that these photographs are AI.
From Veriartve we have done a search for keywords and we have been able to verify that Katy Perry is currently touring and It has not appeared in any of the directs of the red carpet of the Met Gala 2025 or in the social networks of the fashion magazine Vogue. In addition, the publication of X that disseminates this falsehood ensures that the photographs are taken by the agency Getty images, But there are no instant records of Katy Perry in Met Gala 2025. We have also searches in other agencies such as AFP or AP in which photos of celebrities that have attended the event appear and there are no photographic records of Katy Perry. In RTVE we have told you the details of the gala and you can check that there is no photograph related to the artist. The medium The News International published on May 4 a piece where they reported great absent for the Met Gala 2025 and in the article the name of Katy Perry appears.
Katy Perry’s photos in the met gala are generated with AI
In verificaTve we have analyzed the snapshot with the content detection tool generated with the Decopy.AI and the platform concludes with a 99.9% of reliability in your prediction that one of the images of the X post is generated with AI. In addition, in one of the photographs you can see how the right side of the singer presents imperfections that make their authenticity suspect.
Result offered by the Decopy.AI tool Verifartve
It is not the first time that images created with the met gala attendees are disseminated. In 2024, photos created with artificial intelligence of Katy Perry and Rihanna already circulated on the Internet in the celebration of the Met Gala that we denied in verifartve.
