In 2024, viral social media posts reignited rumors that former U.S. President Donald Trump had boasted about walking in on naked beauty pageant contestants in their changing rooms.

And like real life pageant contestants, some AI avatars promote specific causes. One, named Aiyana Rainbow, posts in support of the LGBTQ community, her allyship literally displayed by her rainbow ...

Miss AI is set to be the world's first AI beauty pageant. AI-generated contestants will compete for cash prizes and be assessed by a panel of judges — some of which are AI-generated themselves.

Years before he said he was running for president to “defeat the cult of gender ideology,” Donald Trump welcomed and praised the inclusion of transgender women in the Miss Universe pageant.