AI-What Europeans think Americans look like from every state

[mrsd2006]

www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/asked-ai-europeans-think-americans-201700212.html

From Buzzfeed: I asked AI, state by state, what Europeans REALLY think Americans from all 50 states look like

There was one a few weeks ago about AI creating a Barbie from each state. That was interesting. 

Prepare to be offended by the stereotypes. AI has a long way to go.  Some are funny though. The ones with the food crack me up. 

Anyone from New Hampshire? Can you explain what's in the bowl? Same for MN- is that chili??

[outnumbered]

I grew up in NH and I have no idea what is the bowl. Looks like some kind of mac and cheese. I would have thought there would be chowder.

[underwaterrhymes]

I’ll admit some of these made me cackle, but according to AI, we have no Black people, Asian people, Latinx people, or Indigenous people in the US, but we do have aliens (omfglol at New Mexico).

[cattledogkisses]

Also grew up in NH and don't have a clue.


I'll give them that being bundled up in a million layers isn't wrong for most of the year in Maine.

[pixy0stix]

I'm pretty freaked out that AI seems to be getting the gist of hands, even if some are still kinda funky.

CO is pretty spot on.

[pixy0stix]

Even AI has no clue that North & South Dakota are states, right? LOL!

[scm1011]

Utah made me lol.

[pixy0stix]

Jul 12, 2023 13:35:41 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

I’ll admit some of these made me cackle, but according to AI, we have no Black people, Asian people, Latinx people, or Indigenous people in the US, but we do have aliens (omfglol at New Mexico).

This is pretty endemic to AI as a whole. Most images that have, up to this point, been added to databases prominently feature caucasians. That's why that ap that went around making everyone into different genres using AI got the AI community excited, so that the AI being used was being fed fresh pictures from a new diverse pool. AI can only generate what it finds or is in it's database. Of course, that ap had problems in and of itself.

[muffin0]

So Florida actually looks like a family friend. I'm dying! (Edit to add : We live in FL)

[glw]

Maryland: Can confirm.
(I'm surprised that our state flag isn't in there though -- we put that print on EVERYTHING.)

[janegold]

Can confirm accuracy of Massachusetts.

[Velar Fricative]

Forget the people, I'm enamored by Idaho's giant potato.

[fernweh]

I think these are stereotypes many Americans have about other states to be honest. I will be honest - I loved the Idaho with the guy holding a giant potato!

[katfco]

Jul 12, 2023 14:07:32 GMT -5 janegold said:

Can confirm accuracy of Massachusetts.

Nah, he should have been flipping someone off.

[redheadbaker]

I'm disappointed that PA's isn't Gritty-related.

[Michelle]

As a Texas-New Mexican, it seems to be pretty accurate, lol.

The only image of white people from a given state that didn't fit my mental stereotype was Vermont. But I don't know anyone in or from Vermont, though...

As for lack of diversity in any of the images, I just have to ditto to what is above.

[Michelle]

Jul 12, 2023 14:01:35 GMT -5 glw said:

Maryland: Can confirm.
(I'm surprised that our state flag isn't in there though -- we put that print on EVERYTHING.)

Same.

Or the Lone Star

[goldengirlz]

Maine looks like a scene from Game of Thrones.

[elleblue]

Jul 12, 2023 13:25:22 GMT -5 outnumbered said:

I grew up in NH and I have no idea what is the bowl. Looks like some kind of mac and cheese. I would have thought there would be chowder.

It sort of looks like natto but with enormous soybeans.

[Jalapeñomel]

Jul 12, 2023 13:51:50 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Utah made me lol.

Where’s the wife?

Oh never mind…

[reginaphalange72]

Jul 12, 2023 14:28:51 GMT -5 Michelle said:

The only image of white people from a given state that didn't fit my mental stereotype was Vermont. But I don't know anyone in or from Vermont, though...

Vermonter here. Looks like many of my neighbors!

[k3am]

Jul 12, 2023 13:42:05 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I'm pretty freaked out that AI seems to be getting the gist of hands, even if some are still kinda funky.

CO is pretty spot on.

That was my thought too. Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas have traditional AI hands with questionable amounts of fingers, but no other extra appendages, so I’m relatively impressed.

I’m in a group that does AI art generation for funsies, and some of the results are quite amusing.

AI is now relying on art generated by AI to make stuff, so the suspicion is that it should get progressively weirder.

[starlily]

CA is looking pretty accurate? At least for SoCal. Need to take out the palm trees and add a fleece for Norcal.

[okla]

I think the Oklahoma lady is holding a vegetable peeler? Otherwise, A+, that’s exactly what I look like.

[VillainV]

Jul 12, 2023 13:35:41 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

I’ll admit some of these made me cackle, but according to AI, we have no Black people, Asian people, Latinx people, or Indigenous people in the US, but we do have aliens (omfglol at New Mexico).

Yeah, it was like 90% white dudes with a handful of couples.

[smock]

On top of the total lack of POC, did anyone else notice the massive gender imbalance?

I'm a little crazy, so I dug into the numbers. Out of the 50 states, 38 (or 76%) are represented by a man alone (or with other people/aliens blurry in the background). 10 states have both men and women (including families and couples). Only 2 states are represented by just a woman alone.

Add it up and there are 48 men and 20 women shown, and a big percentage of those women are daughters shown with their fathers.

AI reflects society, and bias in AI is a huge problem.

[krystee]

Indiana’s is cracking me up because you could put Mike Pence in there as the grandpa and he’d have the exact same expression.

[litebright]

Jul 12, 2023 14:07:47 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Forget the people, I'm enamored by Idaho's giant potato.

Cradled like a baby in a family photo! 

[goldengirlz]

New York is basically every white dude I went to college with.

I’m not sure what that stereotype about Connecticut is. I always picture Yalies and Greenwich hedge fund types. Not a sad John Hamm.

[Velar Fricative]

Jul 12, 2023 16:49:41 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

New York is basically every white dude I went to college with.

I’m not sure what that stereotype about Connecticut is. I always picture Yalies and Greenwich hedge fund types. Not a sad John Hamm.

I took that to mean boring suburbanites. But that’s not a stereotype I feel like many Europeans would know?