This seems more like what some stereotypes about the areas are. I doubt the AI really had much information about what Europeans, specifically, think about Americans. Most Europeans have rough ideas of rural VS urban America and northern VS southern.
The amount of finessing you’d have to do to get pictures looking like this. Most of the “I asked AI what insert thing looks like” posts are pretty disingenuous. You have to do some quality prompting and then usually some cleanup with masking.
This seems more like the author’s idea of what europeans might think but it is actually just a US citizen’s stereotyped ideas of the people in each state.
I worry that Buzzfeed’s meaningless AI regurgitation is what most of the internet will look like in 10 years. Ask an AI for its take on an already silly question (Europe is large and diverse) which it is patently unqualified to answer. Maybe ask in English for good measure, guaranteeing further bias. Then take the meanest, most body-shaming and stereotyped answers and post them straight to the website, with a disclaimer that the assholery therein isn’t your assholery, it’s the AI’s assholery.
It really feels like a scene from Idiocracy, but with the dysgenics replaced by AI.
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