AI art really has become the aesthetic of grifters and fascists.
Donald Trump, the convicted felon and current President of the United States, officially launched a new government website dubbed TrumpRx during a press conference at the White House on Friday. It’s very Trumpy. And we mean that in the worst way possible.
You can’t actually do anything yet on the website, which is hosted at TrumpRx.gov, but the photos don’t give us a lot of faith that this is going to be a reliable place to serve America’s healthcare needs.
What’s wrong with the images on TrumpRx? For starters, the first photo you see is of Trump himself, something that may not be a huge surprise, given the way this president has put his name and face on everything. After all, this is the guy who recently launched a TV ad on Newsmax for Trump Watches, which continues his tradition of profiting from the presidency in direct violation of U.S. law.
The photo shows Trump seated in the Oval Office of the White House, where he’s sporting that signature dipshit-tough-guy face he’s been practicing since the 1980s. It’s not surprising to see his face, but it’s still gross. And it would’ve been pretty galling if President Barack Obama had done something similar under his presidency.
When healthcare.gov was launched in 2010, Obama’s photo was nowhere to be seen on that homepage. Obamacare, the unofficial name for the Affordable Care Act, was actually coined by Republicans who opposed the law.
But the lone photo on TrumpRx that doesn’t depict Trump is also disturbing in its own way. The image looks like it was generated by artificial intelligence, a ridiculous and unnecessary choice when you can get a cheap stock photo on any number of websites. It’s also just a disturbingly alien-like image if you take a closer look.
The original image may seem normal enough at first glance, but you can just feel it’s off. Zooming in on the hands reveals it really is one of those bizarre AI images, creating distorted hands with contorted fingers.
AI still often has trouble generating hands, as you can see in the image above. But the legs also give a weird vibe, with the woman’s left calf looking abnormally short, and dropping off into a weird-looking heel and foot.
The woman also appears to be holding hands with one of the children in a mess of fingers that seems physically impossible. That child’s foot doesn’t look typical either, instead sporting maybe six toes or perhaps getting mangled in some industrial accident.
