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“Are You Alright, Netherlands?”: AI Generates The ‘Most Stereotypical Person’ From 20 Countries, And People Have Thoughts
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It seems like artificial intelligence is in the news every day now. ChatGPT, Sophia the robot and AI image generators have taken the internet by storm. (Remember that week where everyone was posting AI-created portraits of themselves on Instagram?)
There were already plenty of supporters and critics of AI-generated art, but recently, it seems like the technology has gained even more. Reddit user WeirdLime used image generator Midjourney to create depictions of the most “stereotypical” men and women in various European countries, and viewers have had a lot to say about the results. Below, you’ll find all of the images, a handful of reactions they’ve received and a conversation between WeirdLime and Bored Panda!
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#1
Iceland
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
it reminded me of the symbol on Japanese maps for a hot spring/onsen...
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Couragetcd 2 years ago
On the left is the look for Business!Naruto, but I gotta admit, I kinda dig it.
Robert Chandler 2 years ago
Apparently this young girl moonlights is a citizen for many other countries according to the other images
To learn more about how these controversial images came about in the first place, we reached out to Reddit user WeirdLime, who shared the images in the Midjourney subreddit and was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. WeirdLime explained that she used Midjourney (v5.1) to create these images and that she was inspired by another post featuring images of “the most stereotypical” people in various US states. “I was curious what this would look like for Europe."
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#2
Ukraine
#3
Denmark
Danish Dynomummy 2 years ago
First one is someone you def could meet in the street, but the second pic... wth is that even? Lol
I. P. Freely 2 years ago
Looks like Danish upper class people from the 1750s 😅
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
why does the guy in the first pic kinda remind me of pewdiepie though
“Once I started prompting, I realized that ALL the outputs were men, so I was curious about how women would look. Of course ‘the most stereotypical woman’ and 'the most stereotypical female’ are both banned, so I attached ‘--no male’,” she explained. “I still got 70% of men in those outputs. Also, a large number of outputs were extremely old people. The final results are a curious concoction of traditional costumes and flag colors.”
#4
Finland
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago (edited)
I can confirm that my Finnish in laws all wear mushroom hats. Totally. 100%.
#5
France
Servane Melot 2 years ago
I agree for the girl, but the guy... Where does that moustache comes from? WW2 ?
MrLoufoque 2 years ago
What's with the weird-looking Eiffel Tower in the background of the 2nd picture?
Christine 2 years ago
Didn't you know that ever small village in France has it's own version of the Eiffel Tower?
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#6
Ireland
Irish cailín 2 years ago
Facial expressions look about right but the girl looks more dutch or something and not Irish.
morticia_b85 2 years ago
The STATE! Don't think this is very accurate other than their facial expressions lol
XenoMurph 2 years ago
I thought exactly the opposite. I'm sure I know that guy. I went to school with a girl who looked very similar to this image.
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Hey! 2 years ago
I thought they would have red hair and green eyes. My bad. They also have blue eyes and didn't realize that.
Irish cailín 2 years ago (edited)
Red hair isn't actually the common in Ireland and we come with lots of colour eyes lol.
Load More Replies... As far as her reactions to these images go, WeirdLime told Bored Panda, “I was both confused and amused that Belgium gave me 100% clowns. The female Belgian still looks very much like a clown.” We were also curious what she thought about the images for her own country, Germany. “I believe the female person does look like a stereotypical German regarding facial features, though I'm not quite sure what's up with the oranges,” she shared. “As for the male German, I'm not really sure what to think of him. He looks like he could be the next Doctor Who (as do a lot of them, especially the Slovenian male, who actually looks like David Tennant).”
#7
Sweden
Emma London 2 years ago
The guy is a spitting image of Sauli Koskinen, a Finn. (also a former boyfriend of Adam Lambert)
Karl Liebhardt 1 year ago
high proportion of "happy" people that like to stick out in a crowd.
Panda Kicki 2 years ago
What happened to her hair? Now I am afraid to go out...knowing what may lurk there..
#8
Portugal
Take me to dinner first 2 years ago (edited)
the boy looks like 70% of the portuguese university students, the girl looks like she is participating in the traditional village's fairs
Teufel DeWolf 2 years ago
the girl looks like she is participating in the traditional village's fairs and not at all happy about it.
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Go to Coimbra, you’ll be able to take a picture of these exact people. Incredibly accurate.
Take me to dinner first 2 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH The guy for sure studies at UC
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#9
Netherlands
Chocolate llama 2 years ago
why does this seem so car-centered? Shouldn't it be full of bikes?
starsailor (they/he) 2 years ago
yeah-went to Amsterdam and Haarlem a few months ago. SO. MANY. BIKES! There were a few cars, but most were like, 2-seaters.
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Jaya 2 years ago
What on earth did they use as reference/training materials for this? Kingsday pictures and century old paintings of sea captains?
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
I do believe that an evening of pub hopping with that gentleman would be absolutely awesome!
Sweetie Dahling 2 years ago
I rewatched that movie last week and you are so right!
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We also asked WeirdLime what she expected the images to look like. “AI is incredibly biased towards certain things,” she noted. “This is strikingly obvious in these ‘stereotypical’ posts, and for me, this was an experiment to see how midjourney would handle these requests. As I wrote in one of my comments on the posts, I was surprised that when prompted for stereotypical person from [country], the vast majority of outputs showed me male people, which then in turn made me curious to see what the female equivalents would be.”
#10
Germany
starsailor (they/he) 2 years ago
girl on the right looks like a manic pixie dream girl love interest
girlsrock4ever 2 years ago
I actually have a German friend who looks a lot like that (except with blue-dyed hair).
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Dana Brechwald 2 years ago
Hilariously, i actually know a german woman who looks JUST like the girl on the right, down to the bangs and round glasses...
#11
Greece
#12
Czechia
Sharkie 2 years ago
Why the chicken? :-D and if I accept the chicken... Why the chicken part on the hat? :-D other than that... It looks a bit like my sister...
Andule Gallusová 2 years ago
I’d love to live in that country, nothing like the one I live in 🤣🤣🤣 in my 40 years on the Earth I haven’t met anyone like those two. And yes, I’m Czech 🤣
“I expected them to look a bit more modern, but Midjourney seems to be very biased towards traditional and historical garments, especially for the female versions,” the OP continued. “I tried to prompt for more modern versions, but Midjourney seemed to insist that stereotypical people from [country] would always involve traditional garments.”
#13
Poland
Pan Paweł 2 years ago
As a Pole I can tell you that guy loosk like 40 yo ex hippie/punk, now working in some corpo, vegan, biker. Girl looks like a younger version of the guy, maybe doing her art degree, or working as a designer/illustrator, or coffemaker in some local coffeeshop, taht will go bakrupt in next month.
Asexual Zelephant (They/Them) 2 years ago
Bro this looks like my grandad and cousin actually XD
#14
Austria
Donkeywheel 2 years ago
The girl… why not. The man… looks nothing at all like anyone from Austria.
Gehtdich Nixan 2 years ago
This is terrible. The clothes look nothing like traditional Austrian costumes.
#15
Belgium
Imma 2 years ago
No men in Belgium? Maybe Italy and Belgium would get together cuz it seemed to be no women there. /j
Den Tweed 2 years ago
Oh we exist ... unlike whatever that thing is that masquerades as a bike
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Den Tweed 2 years ago
And bikes ... what kind of monstrosity is she holding on to
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Despite how questionable some of these images are, WeirdLime is still an advocate for AI. “I work in AI, so I'm a bit biased,” she told Bored Panda. “I think it's an incredibly helpful tool, both for images and for text. I used Midjourney to generate new ideas for actual paintings, based on paintings I previously painted and which I later painted based on Midjourney's output. I also used it extensively to illustrate RPG campaigns. ChatGPT has also been an incredibly helpful tool for me, for example, in converting bullet points to paragraphs.”
#16
Croatia
#17
Italy
Ólafur Unnar Jóhannsson 2 years ago
At home cooking dinner for their 35 years old son.
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Lady Miss Pie 2 years ago
No woman? And, as an Italian American whose family was 75% immigrants….no one looked like this.
Matteo Gabella 2 years ago
I'm italian... never seen someone like this fella... 😀 and for sure we don't drink that weird booze
#18
Norway
And although the images have received mixed feedback from viewers, WeirdLime appreciated what the Finns thought of their male image. “I was happy that the majority of [them] seemed to really enjoy the most stereotypical Finnish male person and his awesome mushroom hat.”
#19
Slovenia
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
What is up with the hats? Did the person feeding the AI prompt the algorithm with: Slovenia but make it quirky?
#20
Spain
Monica Martinez Castañeda 2 years ago
I don't know where the clothes come from. Nothing to do with traditional spanish clothes. Besides, he could pass as Spaniard but not her, at all
Monica Martinez Castañeda 2 years ago
I mean, I'm not saying there's no Spanish girls that might look like her, but she's not the typical spaniard at all
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Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
You might see the guy in Barcelona. Very unlikely you'd see the girl anywhere in the country.
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
It looks like she is wearing a headscarf with a straw hat over it, but I think I am crediting AI too much.
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#21
England
Viv Justviv 2 years ago
Why is almost every country depicted by a beautiful female but either an elderly male or odd looking/homely male? Just wondering if AI is biased towards beauty standards foisted on women?
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
A lot of the girls look suspiciously similar.
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Lou Cam 2 years ago (edited)
She looks like one of the costumed tour guides in York and he looks like one of those "characters" who like to dress different and talk to you at a bus stop. I can see it being in those circumstances but not in any way representational of the average.
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Hilary Mol 2 years ago
So England is a guy from an 80s/90s sitcom and a woman from Sweeney Todd/My Fair Lady?
Appalachian Panda 2 years ago
I think these two were both background characters on 1970s Doctor Who episodes
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Oh my god! That is exactly how I DON'T look. I think this AI 'toy' needs a lot more work
We would love to hear your thoughts on these images in the comments below, pandas. Was your country represented in one of these pics? And if so, how accurate do you think it was? Feel free to share, and then if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda piece discussing AI images that weren’t quite what people were expecting, look no further than right here!
#22
Switzerland
Marcos Valencia 2 years ago
Well... If AI thinks a cow is the size of a big dog, then there is not much to learn from it by now.
MattLondon77 2 years ago
But what if the dude is just huge? Pontificia Cohors Helvetica?
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Couragetcd 2 years ago
Her face says, "Yeah, I'm taking the train to get to my gig playing Heidi's teacher, ya wanna make something of it?"
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I thought they already did this one, but it was Sweden. Why do I interchanged those two countries in my head so much?
Iris Engler 2 years ago
Lol as Swiss I can tell you you are not the only one. Sometimes people even start chatting in Swedish with me online using a translator lol
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Agentur Mehrwert 2 years ago
Couldn't be off more. Neither the folks nor the train nor the clothing is anything close to Switzerland. This must be the result of AS (artificial stupidity) instead of AI.
Jenna Logan 2 years ago
That cow though and the traditional looking female in the middle of a modern subway... this looks accurate
Viewers weighed in with their thoughts on the images, and the woman who shared them answered some questions about how they came to be
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Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago
Why are most of the women manic pixie dream girls with peroxide hair? Why do the men look like jokey versions of whatever clichés exist about the country? What about the age gap in most of the pictures?
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Perhaps they should do another round of these except this time AFTER they've had a chance to go to the toilet. :/
Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago
Why are most of the women manic pixie dream girls with peroxide hair? Why do the men look like jokey versions of whatever clichés exist about the country? What about the age gap in most of the pictures?
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Perhaps they should do another round of these except this time AFTER they've had a chance to go to the toilet. :/
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