After Falsely Accusing Kamala Harris of Using AI, Donald Trump Posts AI Slop About Her on Twitter

Aug 19, 3:30 PM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré

This is getting ridiculous


Early Sunday morning, former president Donald Trump took to X-formerly-Twitter to share an AI-generated image of vice president Kamala Harris wearing a red suit and facing a packed arena of faceless figures who all appear to be decked in Soviet-era military garb. Some members of the fake crowd are pictured flying red flags, while a massive, unfurled banner hanging above the arena depicts a communist hammer and sickle symbol. To the right of that banner, a red-lettered neon sign simply reads: "CHICAGO."

Trump didn't caption the AI-spun image. But shared ahead of this week's Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the image is clearly intended to suggest that Harris — Trump's Democratic rival in the 2024 election — is a communist, and that the forthcoming convention will be akin to a Marxist rally.

The former president has repeatedly referred to Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, as communists in recent weeks, for example telling Fox News earlier this month that theirs "is a ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner."

Now, Trump is using AI to further double down on his chosen line of attack — an oescalation that raises questions of whether it's ethical for a presidential candidate to utilize AI-generated imagery to attack their opponent, and where we draw the line at what we consider propaganda.

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