Elon Musk posts AI picture of Harris as communist dictator – and X customers reply by taking part in him at his personal recreation | EUROtoday

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Elon Musk has posted an AI generated picture of Kamala Harris as a communist dictator – and X customers have responded by taking part in him at his personal recreation.

Billionaire Musk was responding to a publish Harris put out on 1 September the place she shared a poster of Donald Trump studying: “Donald Trump vows to be a dictator on day one.”

“We won’t let him,” she wrote.

Musk initially replied: “You’re lying.”

Then later, he shared an AI generated picture of Harris in a crimson communist uniform and wrote sarcastically: “Kamala vows to be a communist dictator on day one. Can you believe she wears that outfit!?”

But the Tesla CEO – the richest man on the planet – has confronted a wave of backlash on his personal social media platform, with a number of X customers hitting again by creating their very own AI pictures depicting Musk himself as a communist chief.

One account posted an AI picture of Musk in a Nazi uniform, writing: “Apartheid Clyde in all his glory spreading misinformation – so here we are! Thank Grok! Can you believe Elon wears that outfit??”

Another X account, which described itself as a “concerned republican”, shared a photograph of Trump as a communist chief, and pointed to the previous president’s shut relations with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un.

“Tell your daddy Trump to stop praising communist dictators all the time. Kamala never wrote ‘love letters’ with Kim Jong Un,” they wrote.

Given Musk’s huge wealth and his shut ties to the Republican presidential nominee, X customers mentioned he ought to take “more responsibility” for what he posts on the social media platform.

Mike Harvey, a Democratic nominee for the Florida senate, mentioned the AI picture was “dangerous.”

“You don’t think this type of extreme manipulation at best, flat out lie at worst isn’t dangerous coming from the richest person on earth that happens to own one of the largest platforms,” he wrote. “Doesn’t all the money and power come with more responsibility?”

Republicans Against Trump additionally slammed Musk. “This is utterly false, and you know it,” the account mentioned. “Donald Trump, who repetedly [sic] praised the communist dictators of China and NK, explicitly said that he’ll be a dictator for ‘one day’.”

Meanwhile, former RNC chairman Michael Steele really helpful Musk get off his personal social media platform.

“Dude, perhaps you should take a break from this platform…” he posted.

The Independent has contacted the Harris marketing campaign for remark.

Trump final week tried to make clear his earlier remarks about eager to be a “dictator for one day” if he wins the White House in November in an interview with TV persona Dr Phil.

He claimed the feedback, made to Fox News’ host Sean Hannity in December, had been in jest and had been actually referring to his need to get work accomplished rapidly.

“It was said with a chuckle,” he mentioned. “The audience laughed, I laughed, we all laughed, but they take it, and they cut it… and it says, ‘I want to be a dictator.’”

Fan-generated AI pictures have additionally develop into the Republican candidate’s newest obsession.

AI pictures of Trump wanting defiant now dominate right-wing social media platforms and accounts and have featured closely on this election marketing campaign.

Trump himself has been sharing AI pictures of himself since March 2023, together with his face photoshopped onto pictures together with a Second World War soldier, a cowboy and even the muscle-bound physique of Rambo – earnestly and unironically.

His current fixation on AI-generated promotions comes at a time through which critical issues are being raised in Congress about the usage of such content material within the upcoming election – although there are presently few if any federal legal guidelines or rules.