The MAGA Aesthetic Is AI Slop

Taylor Swift fans are not endorsing Donald Trump en masse. Kamala Harris did not give a speech at the Democratic National Convention to a sea of communists while standing in front of the hammer and sickle. Hillary Clinton was not recently seen walking around Chicago in a MAGA hat. But images of all these things exist. In recent weeks, far-right corners of social media have been clogged with such depictions, created with generative-AI tools.