Why Is AI So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris?

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. And, as many observers noted, the woman in the photo, presumably generated by X's Grok tool, had only a passing resemblance to the vice president. "AI still is unable to accurately depict Kamala Harris," one X user wrote. "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. "AI just CANNOT replicate Kamala Harris," a third posted.