Key Points
When Elon Musk shared an image showing Kamala Harris dressed as a communist dictator on X last week, it was quite obviously a fake, seeing as Harris is neither a communist nor, to the best of our knowledge, a Soviet cosplayer..
Looks like theyre posting some random Latina woman.. 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...
(The ban extends to Harris.) 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...
Similarly, OpenAIs ChatGPT and Googles Gemini refused to produce images of Harris or Trump in WIREDs testing..
Joaquin Cuenca Abela, CEO of Freepik, a company that hosts various AI tools, including several image generators, tells WIRED that the difficulty such generators have conjuring up Harris, compared to Trump, is that they have been fed fewer well-labeled pictures...
