AI-What Europeans think Americans look like from every state

[jlt19]

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.

Looks like gnocchi. I honestly know nothing about NH, so not sure if that has any meaning though.

[tiki]

I am fascinated by Arizona. Why? What even is the data it's drawing from? Nevermind that it's a reasonable age projection of the guy I dated in high school, in Arizona.

[basilosaurus]

Jul 12, 2023 15:50:25 GMT -5 k3am said:

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.

AI relying on other AI is what is called model collapse which is entirely possible and quite likely. And that's why I don't think it will take over humans

[gretchenindisguise]

Jul 12, 2023 17:34:35 GMT -5 tiki said:

I am fascinated by Arizona. Why? What even is the data it's drawing from? Nevermind that it's a reasonable age projection of the guy I dated in high school, in Arizona.

I was thinking of the colleges there known for partying.

[rubytue]

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.)

But, the crabs aren’t blue crabs. Like, a bit too fat and rounded. But, basically, spot on. I’d add a flag and a can of old bay. 

[Michelle]

Jul 12, 2023 18:03:51 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Jul 12, 2023 17:34:35 GMT -5 tiki said:

I am fascinated by Arizona. Why? What even is the data it's drawing from? Nevermind that it's a reasonable age projection of the guy I dated in high school, in Arizona.

I was thinking of the colleges there known for partying.

My grandparents who lived in Phoenix my whole life did have a kegerator on their patio as far back as I can remember... so early 1980s... 

One piece of anecdotal evidence...

Oh editing to add... my grandpa was in facilities (carpentry and other work) at ASU, hehe.

[pixy0stix]

Jul 12, 2023 18:03:51 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Jul 12, 2023 17:34:35 GMT -5 tiki said:

I am fascinated by Arizona. Why? What even is the data it's drawing from? Nevermind that it's a reasonable age projection of the guy I dated in high school, in Arizona.

I was thinking of the colleges there known for partying.

Yeah, AZ is known as the party college state.

[shauni27]

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

Utah made me lol.

I CACKLED.

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

Can confirm accuracy of Massachusetts.

this was my second favorite, only to Utah.

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...

as a Vermonter, while I know some folks who look like that, it is NOT what I think of when I think of VT. I thought Maine looked more like VT to me, lol.

Jul 12, 2023 18:03:51 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Jul 12, 2023 17:34:35 GMT -5 tiki said:

I am fascinated by Arizona. Why? What even is the data it's drawing from? Nevermind that it's a reasonable age projection of the guy I dated in high school, in Arizona.

I was thinking of the colleges there known for partying.

I saw a TT that said "this picture is not AI, it ACTUALLY IS Arizona State's official picture" lolol.

As for New Hampshire, I also have lived here over 50% of my life and have not one clue as to what is in the bowl...

[Velar Fricative]

I guess I was the only one who assumed Europeans were somehow mixing up New Hampshire and Wisconsin because NH's food looks like cheese curds to me?

[cattledogkisses]

Maybe the AI just had difficulty because NH is one of those nondescript states that doesn't really make me think of anything in particular, lol. (And like I said, I grew up there, so...)

[mrshandy]

I can confirm that yes Virginians do wear colonial garb 24/7.

[macmars45]

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 was the first thing I noticed.

[BicycleBride]

I was pleasantly surprised by KY given some of the others.

[just]

Most Europeans can't name most of the states apart from the coasts, let alone assign stereotypes to them. We're not nearly as interested in the US as the US tends to think we are. I lived in Green Bay for 8 years, and my family visited multiple times, and yet still said I lived "near chicago" and couldn't have named Illinois, Minnesota or Michigan as neighboring states.

Clearly just general state stereotypes.

[loira]

Well these are horrifying.

I'm laughing at the Michigan one because my H is from Michigan and is a die hard U of M fan despite never having gone there for university. (I assume the Michigan guy's sweatsuit is U of M swag by the colours.)

Imagining what European AI would do with Canadian stereotypes... Probably everyone would be dressed as a lumberjack or fisherman.

[Velar Fricative]

Jul 13, 2023 9:40:59 GMT -5 just said:

Most Europeans can't name most of the states apart from the coasts, let alone assign stereotypes to them. We're not nearly as interested in the US as the US tends to think we are. I lived in Green Bay for 8 years, and my family visited multiple times, and yet still said I lived "near chicago" and couldn't have named Illinois, Minnesota or Michigan as neighboring states.

Clearly just general state stereotypes.

I mentioned that too when I posted about it on social media - but I'm actually impressed that their stereotypes of states that I assumed they never heard of (or rarely heard of or cared about) might match those that Americans have. 

[picksthemusic]

WA and OR are pretty much accurate. LOL

[mrsd2006]

That's weird- the one from GA has changed (I'm from GA so it was the first one I looked at)

Yesterday it was a farmer in a field (I assumed peanuts) and now it's a guy sitting on a ladder surrounded by peaches.

[Velar Fricative]

Jul 13, 2023 10:38:14 GMT -5 mrsd2006 said:

That's weird- the one from GA has changed (I'm from GA so it was the first one I looked at)

Yesterday it was a farmer in a field (I assumed peanuts) and now it's a guy sitting on a ladder surrounded by peaches.

You're right! It's the only one that changed too. 

[AJL]

White, white, white, fat, and white. Seems spot on for the OG YT-land. 

[wildrice]

These are hilarious.

It seems like there is also a positive bias for Montana and Wyoming - just a traditionally attractive cowboy looking tough.

Indiana was terrifying.

Texas with the gun also stood out to me with the gun stereotype. Kind of surprised there were not more guns overall, actually.

[litasail]

Jul 12, 2023 18:07:10 GMT -5 rubytue said:

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.)

But, the crabs aren’t blue crabs. Like, a bit too fat and rounded. But, basically, spot on. I’d add a flag and a can of old bay. 

Agree. Delaware seems to have stolen our crabs?

[AAM2012]

Jul 12, 2023 18:54:24 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Jul 12, 2023 18:03:51 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

I was thinking of the colleges there known for partying.

Yeah, AZ is known as the party college state.

Yeah that one reads to me as a straight up ASU student….

[Michelle]

Jul 13, 2023 10:10:56 GMT -5 picksthemusic said:

WA and OR are pretty much accurate. LOL

The OR couple is gorgeous!

[karinothing]

Jul 15, 2023 14:50:25 GMT -5 AAM2012 said:

Jul 12, 2023 18:54:24 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Yeah, AZ is known as the party college state.

Yeah that one reads to me as a straight up ASU student….

I went to ASU, I can assure you I do not look like him 😉

[wawa]

Jul 12, 2023 18:07:10 GMT -5 rubytue said:

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.)

But, the crabs aren’t blue crabs. Like, a bit too fat and rounded. But, basically, spot on. I’d add a flag and a can of old bay. 

That guy clearly plays lacrosse

[Vespasia]

Jul 15, 2023 17:08:18 GMT -5 wawa said:

Jul 12, 2023 18:07:10 GMT -5 rubytue said:

But, the crabs aren’t blue crabs. Like, a bit too fat and rounded. But, basically, spot on. I’d add a flag and a can of old bay. 

That guy clearly plays lacrosse

But why are they in a car?! That's the bit that gets me.

[wildrice]

Jul 15, 2023 17:42:43 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

Jul 15, 2023 17:08:18 GMT -5 wawa said:

That guy clearly plays lacrosse

But why are they in a car?! That's the bit that gets me.

We have horrible traffic? That's all I can think of as a guess!

[wanderingback]

Ok that is really weird.
There are no Black people.

[klingklang77]

Jul 13, 2023 9:40:59 GMT -5 just said:

Most Europeans can't name most of the states apart from the coasts, let alone assign stereotypes to them. We're not nearly as interested in the US as the US tends to think we are. I lived in Green Bay for 8 years, and my family visited multiple times, and yet still said I lived "near chicago" and couldn't have named Illinois, Minnesota or Michigan as neighboring states.

Clearly just general state stereotypes.

This is exactly what I thought. Half of the time they don’t even know where each state is. I would be very curious to see the reverse of this— what Americans think Europeans look like from each country.