For Some Reason, AI Generators Are Absolutely Butchering Attempts to Draw Kamala Harris

Try as they might, AI image generators can’t seem to produce a convincing likeness of vice president Kamala Harris. In an astonishingly lazy attempt to portray Harris as a “communist dictator” last week, Elon Musk shared an image produced by his xAI venture’s Grok image generator of a woman wearing a red suit. The only problem, as X users were quick to point out? She looked almost nothing like the actual Harris, as Wired reports. “Grok put old Eva Longoria in a snazzy outfit and called it a day,” one user joked. It wasn’t just the one image. As more and more people are noticing online, Grok absolutely butchers any attempt to depict Harris. Interestingly, the weakness doesn’t extend to her rival, with Wired finding that Grok can generally produce a passable imitation of former president Donald Trump’s orange visage. It’s not just Grok, either. Competing AI image generators like Midjourney, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Gemini don’t allow users to produce pictures of politicians. But in Wired’s experimentation, open-source generators also struggled with Harris. “We actually don’t talk enough about how every AI just CANNOT replicate Kamala Harris,” another user pointed out. “It’s uncanny how failed the algorithm is at an AMERICAN (of South Indian and Jamaican heritage).” At times, AI depicts Harris as looking “more like former First Lady Michelle Obama,” in Wired’s estimation, appearing with “varying features, hairstyles, and skin tones.” One image making the rounds on X-formerly-Twitter shows an attempt at Harris’ face adorning a bag of Doritos chips — but…For Some Reason, AI Generators Are Absolutely Butchering Attempts to Draw Kamala Harris

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