Editor Notes: This incident is part of a pair of purported AI-generated celebrity impersonation cases involving Katy Perry at the 2024 and 2025 Met Gala events. In both cases, reportedly realistic deepfake images depicting Perry on the red carpet circulated widely on social media, which is described as having led to sustained public confusion about her attendance. Reportedly, in 2024, Perry's mother was also misled by the images, and in 2025, Perry publicly addressed the recurrence of the phenomenon. Although no financial harm, defamation, or malicious actor attribution has been confirmed, these incidents are included in the database as examples of epistemic distortion within which synthetic media causes widespread misrecognition without seeming to deceive for material gain or institutional impact. Their documentation is meant to preserve a record of overt cultural epistemic distortion, especially as public trust in photographic evidence continues to erode. See Incident 1058.