On one hand most Europeans probably couldn't place more than a handful of states, let alone tell you something unique about the states. On the other hand the AI is trained on real data
Depends how far the 'prompts' were custom chosen for each picture/state. That could have determined the resultant image just as much as whatever implicit "stereotypes" are out there in the "training data".
It's interesting that the
style of the images often seems to fit the chosen state (e.g. California - I'm sure that visual style reminds me of some California-related art, or Virginia that looks like an 18th century painting).
But it's odd and unfortunate that everyone in them is white (though that Hawaiian woman might be mixed?)