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Why AI Is So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris


Race and gender are part of it, but there’s more to those unconvincing pictures of the presidential candidate.

“Grok put old Eva Longoria in a snazzy outfit and called it a day,” another quipped, noting the similarity of the “dictator” pictured to the Desperate Housewives star. A tweet featuring an AI-generated video showing Harris and Donald Trump in a romantic relationship—it culminates in her holding their love child, which looks like Trump—has nearly 28 million views on X. The move followed publication of a report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate that found that the tool could be used to generate a range of politically charged images.

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