No he didn't. What he did was put in explicit Midjourney prompts. He is absolutely full of shit.
Right click on any picture and hit INSPECT and you will see the EXACT prompts he used from the image names.
I fucking hate Buzzfeed. He didn't even bother to change the image names that he saved.
For instance, the very first picture was generated with the prompt "Balding older man with several missing teeth, a thick mustache and beard, and unkempt wisps of hair, wearing a dirty T-shirt" in Midjourney.
He didn't ask an AI anything except to make explicit images using words he conjured up from his own stupid fucking view of each states residents.
I had to go to the original website to see the whole thing.
I'm calling bullshit that the author just asked an AI "draw someone from State X the way Europeans imagine them"
For example, there's no fucking way most Europeans would know that Hershey is in PA, but the PA pic is some fat Willie Wonka reject eating a chocolate bar.
there's no fucking way most Europeans would know that Hershey is in PA
I speculate there may just be a disproportionate amount of internet searching for Hershey from Europe (if people wanted to know where the candy company was located) versus the things with a larger global interest specific to Pennsylvania.
Everybody in the south is white and Hawaiians are also white? Yeah, no.
The prompt was obviously something with state keywords like "Person from Montana, horses, rancher". Or "Person from Nebraska, farmer, corn". And the keywords came from some survey of Europeans.
Since it's Buzzfeed they probably also added "white person who looks retarded" so the only interesting thing here is try as they might they couldn't get AI to make white people from Montana or Wyoming not look like badasses.
That seems accurate, because as much as European soylords on the internet like to rag on Americans about not knowing the capital of Montenegro, just about zero of them could name more than 10 US states, much less their capitals. (Le fuck is a le Concord?! Wasn't that a le aéroplane?)
The public discourse on "AI" is so fucking awful, coming from someone who was playing around with them before most people even knew it existed. Everyone is simultaneously clueless, hysterical, and ignorant. And of course the press dials it up to 11 for profit, while themselves having no idea.
Most europeans wouldn't know a thing about american states beside the obvious ones (New York, California, Texas, Florida), and they only know what they saw in movies.
And Alabama, but only because of the incest j/k
Hell, I know the names of, like 13 of the states at best.
No he didn't. What he did was put in explicit Midjourney prompts. He is absolutely full of shit.
Right click on any picture and hit INSPECT and you will see the EXACT prompts he used from the image names.
I fucking hate Buzzfeed. He didn't even bother to change the image names that he saved.
For instance, the very first picture was generated with the prompt "Balding older man with several missing teeth, a thick mustache and beard, and unkempt wisps of hair, wearing a dirty T-shirt" in Midjourney.
He didn't ask an AI anything except to make explicit images using words he conjured up from his own stupid fucking view of each states residents.
FUCK you Buzzfeed, and FUCK you Dave Stopera.
First one I tried, Utah:
Texas:
Yeah, those sound a little different from "what do Europeans think."
I know Buzzfeed is bullshit, but I share your anger. This is really fucking obnoxious.
If only the US was that white.
I had to go to the original website to see the whole thing.
I'm calling bullshit that the author just asked an AI "draw someone from State X the way Europeans imagine them"
For example, there's no fucking way most Europeans would know that Hershey is in PA, but the PA pic is some fat Willie Wonka reject eating a chocolate bar.
I speculate there may just be a disproportionate amount of internet searching for Hershey from Europe (if people wanted to know where the candy company was located) versus the things with a larger global interest specific to Pennsylvania.
Everybody in the south is white and Hawaiians are also white? Yeah, no.
The prompt was obviously something with state keywords like "Person from Montana, horses, rancher". Or "Person from Nebraska, farmer, corn". And the keywords came from some survey of Europeans.
Since it's Buzzfeed they probably also added "white person who looks retarded" so the only interesting thing here is try as they might they couldn't get AI to make white people from Montana or Wyoming not look like badasses.
Checks out.
That seems accurate, because as much as European soylords on the internet like to rag on Americans about not knowing the capital of Montenegro, just about zero of them could name more than 10 US states, much less their capitals. (Le fuck is a le Concord?! Wasn't that a le aéroplane?)
Online (and the IRL ones I've known) Euros seem extremely reluctant to open themselves up to criticism from Americans.
Most of them are pretty based.
I quite enjoy the sad man that appears to have adopted a potato. Fucking unit.
The public discourse on "AI" is so fucking awful, coming from someone who was playing around with them before most people even knew it existed. Everyone is simultaneously clueless, hysterical, and ignorant. And of course the press dials it up to 11 for profit, while themselves having no idea.
Most europeans wouldn't know a thing about american states beside the obvious ones (New York, California, Texas, Florida), and they only know what they saw in movies.
And Alabama, but only because of the incest j/k
Hell, I know the names of, like 13 of the states at best.