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AI draws what Europeans think Americans look like state by state.

Hard to know what any of those 'mean', given it's all second-guessing someone else's second-guessing of what someone else would think (and who knows what manipulation of prompts went into getting the AI to produce them). But they are quite striking in themselves.

Food and obesity seem to feature heavily - that much seems plausible. California and Hawaii seem to get a particularly positive portrayal, and Montanans and Wyomingites (if that's what you call them?) should be pretty pleased also.

Though, in this European's opinion, if it's supposed to portray stereotypical ideas held by Europeans, Florida Man isn't depicted doing something anywhere near insane enough (and is actually arguably too fat). Texas absolutely checks out, though.

What's going on with Maryland man? That must involve a stereotype I'm completely unfamiliar with (which is another reason to be suspicious of how much manipulation went into producing these - I don't know that Europeans would have detailed knowledge of every state stereotype).

Seems like a strong "American Gothic" influence on much of the farming imagery.
 
Hard to know what any of those 'mean', given it's all second-guessing someone else's second-guessing of what someone else would think (and who knows what manipulation of prompts went into getting the AI to produce them). But they are quite striking in themselves.

Food and obesity seem to feature heavily - that much seems plausible. California and Hawaii seem to get a particularly positive portrayal, and Montanans and Wyomingites (if that's what you call them?) should be pretty pleased also.

Though, in this European's opinion, if it's supposed to portray stereotypical ideas held by Europeans, Florida Man isn't depicted doing something anywhere near insane enough (and is actually arguably too fat). Texas absolutely checks out, though.

What's going on with Maryland man? That must involve a stereotype I'm completely unfamiliar with (which is another reason to be suspicious of how much manipulation went into producing these - I don't know that Europeans would have detailed knowledge of every state stereotype).

Seems like a strong "American Gothic" influence on much of the farming imagery.


Indiana looks like Children of the Corn
 
Maine looks like fun. Pretty sure they just finished grinding up the body of someone that tried to break into their cabin.

The graphics of this AI is pretty good though, pretty soon it's going to be really hard to tell difference. This has a bit of a Pixar graphic look to it, but it's getting pretty close to looking like real life.
 
looks like Michigan and Ohio were accurate.

LOL

You mean the Michigan guy wearing what is probably a University of Delaware logo? (Michigan and Delaware have similar style football helmets, so guessing someone fucked something up). Have an inkling this "article" might just be a massive heap of bullshit (as in the premise in the title isn't false).

Also, just want to say, fuck you, OP for linking to Buzzfeed trash. I guess thanks for the reminder that literally everything they do still would only be worth wiping my ass with and that's only if you printed it out. Not only that but its a Yahoo, natch, Yahoo Lifestyle, link. I don't even want to know what led you there, but hopefully you get sober before you do some real harm to yourself. Only thing more embarrassing would've been if it'd been one of those att or verizon links (who owns Yahoo now?)
 
I'm not convinced the pic for Missouri isn't a real pic.

Though whatever it is that he's eating looks as if someone cooked and added BBQ sauce to John Carpenter's version of "the Thing". Maybe that's just what they do with shape-shifting alien entities down in Missouri?

(Several of the images look photo-realistic, while others are more like oil-painting or cartoon styles, which further suggests there were some deliberate creative 'choices' taken in what prompts to use for each pic, rather than it just being an AI harvesting whatever images it finds 'out there')
 
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