Countries differ from each other in a multitude of ways, such as geography, culture, history, political systems, economies, and demographics. However, these things aren't always apparent when you visit them. So, digital artist Crypto Tea got interested in how others see the big picture. Then, she used artificial intelligence (AI) to depict it.
The young artist used the technology to reimagine various countries as women, and after she shared the results, the digital portraits immediately took off. The series portraying countries as humans has over 2.8M views and almost 14K likes on X (formerly Twitter) and has only fueled the discussion of AI in art.
So, what do countries as humans (ai-generated) look like? Here is the perfect compilation of countries as humans to show you what these countries might resemble if embodied as human individuals. Scroll down and get ready to be hypnotized by the magic of AI through these digital portraits!
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Norway
“Being in the crypto, NFT, and Web3 space, I’m always on the hunt for new groundbreaking technologies that’ll change how we live,” Crypto Tea told BuzzFeed.
“I first became fascinated with AI once ChatGPT became public, and being an artist with my own NFT collection, my mind was blown when I found out we could use AI to generate art.”
Japan
Ireland
“I wanted to put AI to the test and see if it could not only pick up features of different people around the world but also cultures—which it did (i.e., the cowboy hat for a woman imagined as the US),” the digital artist explained the origins of the AI countries as humans project.
Crypto Tea is fascinated by the potential for AI art. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the next generation of influencers and content creators would be AI artists,” she said. “Imagine an AI that studies every post on Instagram and knows what gets the best engagement and what people want to hear—the world is changing before our eyes.”
Ukraine
Palestine
And she’s not the only one who sees it that way. “A year or two back, if you’d asked me whether graphic design was a safe job, I’d have said yes, it was a pretty safe job—anything in the creative industries is a pretty safe job from racing against the machine. But now, actually, I would be somewhat worried if I was a graphic designer,” Toby Walsh, professor of AI at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, told The Syndey Morning Herald.
Ethiopia
Greece
Spain
However, Walsh questions whether or not this is sustainable, both for artists and these programs. If AI-generated work takes money, recognition, and opportunities away from artists, many will be forced to look for other endeavors.
“We have to work out ways to ensure that the people on whose work the systems depend do get some sort of reward so that they continue to produce art that will continue to be used to train future systems.”
United Kingdom
Mexico
Switzerland
Thinking about AI being used to increase the potential of art to broaden what is possible, Walsh said, “I think the best way to envisage artificial intelligence is something that augments us. We’ve always picked up and used tools, and here’s a new tool that will allow many of us to make much more beautiful art than we could without the tool.”
Canada
Jamaica
I feel like she should get her collarbones checked out at the doctor
Iran
Laughable, given what’s been going on with human rights there these days.
Saudi Arabia
As an example, Walsh pointed out that photography didn’t destroy painting. “Art is more than just making realistic images. It’s about asking questions and addressing aspects of the human condition, whether that’s about falling in love and losing loved ones and human mortality and all of the troubling questions that art helps us to think about,” he explained.
“Machines aren’t going to speak to us in the same way that artists speak to us because they don’t share our humanity.”
France
Brazil
It is so hard to do a representation like that with us because we are such a mix that any of the women here would be fine
Austria
India
But not everyone is psyched about the change. According to The Verge, a trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against the creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which has just created its own AI art generator, DreamUp.
The artists—Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz—allege that these organizations have infringed the rights of “millions of artists” by training their AI tools on five billion images scraped from the web “without the consent of the original artists.”
Portugal
Germany
El Salvador
Venezuela
Whether or not these systems infringe on copyright law is a complicated question that experts say will need to be settled in the courts. The creators of AI art tools usually argue that the training of this software on copyrighted data is covered (in the US, at least) by the fair use doctrine. However, cases involving fair use still need to be litigated, and there are numerous complicated factors regarding AI art generators.
Morocco
Poland
New Zealand
Costa Rica
Note: this post originally had 37 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
So all slender women with a straight nose and full lips :( I didnt think the world would be so boring
Stop calling people who just feed a few words to AI-generators artists. It's an insult to every real artist who spends hours of their creativity, time, and heart on their art.
Exactly !!! Everybody who produces anything seems to be an artist on BP.
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I refuse to call this person an artist. This Ai stuff is getting out of hand.
Where did it say these were supposed to be of indigenous women?
Load More Replies... The same woman with a different skin color and different eyes and some different attributes surrounding her.
This used to be a fun listicle website that featured the artwork of little known artists and quirky articles. Now, you are promoting AI which is harmful to so many artists as these AI algorithms are trained off various artworks on the web without permission of the original creators. Something smells fishy. This person is in no way shape or form an artist. Furthermore, this has to be the blandest, most boring and stereotypical stuff (I can’t even call it art) I’ve seen. Where are the hell are the gorgeous physical traits that make each one of these ethnicities different and beautiful? They all look like boring whitewashed clones. If you actually read user's comments (which I highly doubt you do) stop promoting AI and actually feature real artists again!
Really curious what kind of prompts are fed to the AI to produce these images
Now we've let our AI overlords do it, can we cobble together a list of actual people in traditional dress. Thanks.
Actually that's not a bad idea, Pandas could undoubtedly do better
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I think this is garbage for two reasons. 1: The Method. AI is not art, its not created by a human brain therefor is not art. And 2: The Subject. First we have the representation of countries, which consists of cultural stereotypes that are cliche, misappropriated and in some cases totally inaccurate. Then we have the women themselves. Wow what can I say. Like an out dated version of a woman from a 1960's hoover ad, idealised, bland, uniform, someones idea of what an ideal woman should look like. The whole thing is garbage.
These are pretty bad. Stereotypes, all white features, just inaccurate all around. AI is not accurate and not art.
pla·gia·rism /ˈplājəˌriz(ə)m/ noun the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. "there were accusations of plagiarism" So yeeeeaaaahh, boredpanda needs to stop supporting plagiarism AI is art theft.
Since when is someone an artist when a computer does all the work?
It’s pretty clear that AI was not involved at any point, this is just a way to attract attention and surf on the trend. These images are the stereotypes in the mind of the untalented artist. Bad editing choice from the BP team.
Don't think I've seen so much whitewashing since 5th grade in Iowa. So...where's Thailand?
Allof these women have suspiciously western european features. No flat or wide noses amongst these women. They are all a picture of western beauty.
I've traveled and yea there are beautiful women of all race n color but I would dare say none of these women are even slightly representative of the norm in any country... maybe the winners of international beauty competition... and kudos they are all unique n gorgeous but they are all serious thirst traps
These are all stereotypes. What did you expect from something saying that it would show what countries would look like as women? I'm American and at most 1% of the people where I have been look/dress like this. I can't speak as to the others because I've only ever lived in America. But these AI women are just collages of stereotypes of each country.
Iteresting that any website that bothers to include misunderstood places has racist and xenophobic Americans coming out in droves to outright lie and spread the most obnoxious stereotypes against them. Americans don't want their racism to be called out so they mock and ridicule any representation of any nation that their government screams against day in and day out. I am not saying these places are perfect but we don't mock American cultural representation because of the daily lunchings of black people in the US. That's not all we think of or respond with when America is referenced online but anyone dares mention Iran or Morocco or Pakistan and it's all about oppression of women as if it suddenly becomes acceptable to whitewash the experience of millions and narrow it to a singular, misplaced stereotype. Don't claim to speak about 'our rights' when you reduce us to the most obnoxious stereotypes while allowing yourself to be seen as a diverse culture of unique individuals.
Sickeningly superficial "Barbie Doll" template. Even "real" people who might look a little like this in "real" life have spent copious amounts of time, resources, skills, etc. just to look superbly make believe and "life-like." Vanity in full flight.
Not a nose bump, wide chin, or broad head among them. If they are all meant to be beautiful, definitely it is to a "western European" male standard.
This is insulting trash. These images do not seem at all like real women.
Why people are unhappy about anything and everything, I like all your representation!! My favourite is Venezuela !!! thanks art creators!!
Hey Siri, draw me some sexy national stereotypes please. no natives tho.
It looks like all the uggos in the comments got triggered by this… sad.
Seems whomever gave the A1 information relied heavily on previous computer models of a 'perfect face'. (Nose, eye distance, cheeks, mouth proportion, etc). India was poorly represented as there are more people with darker skin. Most Irish have freckles. Iran has required head/hair covering for forever, so accurate representation would hide hair, and their skin is darker, too. Where was the USA picture? That would be interesting to see.
AI is a true representation of us. I'm dismayed or even angry that we don't recognize still that true beauty is within diversity. I see what is wrong and it lives in my mirror.
Beautiful faces are the least interesting - and the most unrepresentative.
Painting a different skin color over a clearly white woman is ackshually not very inclusive...
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You all are taking this way too seriously. It was an experiment to see what the AI would come up with and these are the results. Criticizing a piece of machine code for the outcome of the query is silly: the AI does not care. You might as well get angry at your toaster for not browning your bread evenly.
So proving we can program computers to stereotype is a noteworthy accomplishment ? FFS people. What a cringy article. It’s not art either. Teaching a polite racist how to draw and then askin him to whip out a woman from each of these countries Is more akin to art. NGL tho, I’ve fapped to 25 of em. so far!
Mostly negative comments under each picture, and mostly negative comments for the article. I think it is sad that we live in a world with such beauty, but focus our minds on the ugly.
Lighten up, folks. Just have fun with it. Remember...once upon a time cartoons were painted by hand, one cell at a time. Then came computers. Then came computer games with computer generated cartoons.
And artists still manipulated and drew these things. "Computer generated" doesn't mean a person doesn't need to draw the art, it's drawn a different way. I'm an artist that began traditionally and learned to draw on the computer as well, so I know what I'm talking about.
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Beautiful and amazing. I'm curious how males would look like.
People are allowed to have opinions and dislike something. Many of us are annoyed because the woman who created these is labeling herself as an artist when all she did was feed a bunch of prompts into a machine that was created an trained by programmers. Many people dislike AI because it is often trained on work created by real artists without their consent. Furthermore, there are extremely nebulous copyright laws around AI art and some people sell their AI creations that are often based of of artworks created by real artists.
Load More Replies... So all slender women with a straight nose and full lips :( I didnt think the world would be so boring
Stop calling people who just feed a few words to AI-generators artists. It's an insult to every real artist who spends hours of their creativity, time, and heart on their art.
Exactly !!! Everybody who produces anything seems to be an artist on BP.
Load More Replies... I refuse to call this person an artist. This Ai stuff is getting out of hand.
Where did it say these were supposed to be of indigenous women?
Load More Replies... The same woman with a different skin color and different eyes and some different attributes surrounding her.
This used to be a fun listicle website that featured the artwork of little known artists and quirky articles. Now, you are promoting AI which is harmful to so many artists as these AI algorithms are trained off various artworks on the web without permission of the original creators. Something smells fishy. This person is in no way shape or form an artist. Furthermore, this has to be the blandest, most boring and stereotypical stuff (I can’t even call it art) I’ve seen. Where are the hell are the gorgeous physical traits that make each one of these ethnicities different and beautiful? They all look like boring whitewashed clones. If you actually read user's comments (which I highly doubt you do) stop promoting AI and actually feature real artists again!
Really curious what kind of prompts are fed to the AI to produce these images
Now we've let our AI overlords do it, can we cobble together a list of actual people in traditional dress. Thanks.
Actually that's not a bad idea, Pandas could undoubtedly do better
Load More Replies... I think this is garbage for two reasons. 1: The Method. AI is not art, its not created by a human brain therefor is not art. And 2: The Subject. First we have the representation of countries, which consists of cultural stereotypes that are cliche, misappropriated and in some cases totally inaccurate. Then we have the women themselves. Wow what can I say. Like an out dated version of a woman from a 1960's hoover ad, idealised, bland, uniform, someones idea of what an ideal woman should look like. The whole thing is garbage.
These are pretty bad. Stereotypes, all white features, just inaccurate all around. AI is not accurate and not art.
pla·gia·rism /ˈplājəˌriz(ə)m/ noun the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. "there were accusations of plagiarism" So yeeeeaaaahh, boredpanda needs to stop supporting plagiarism AI is art theft.
Since when is someone an artist when a computer does all the work?
It’s pretty clear that AI was not involved at any point, this is just a way to attract attention and surf on the trend. These images are the stereotypes in the mind of the untalented artist. Bad editing choice from the BP team.
Don't think I've seen so much whitewashing since 5th grade in Iowa. So...where's Thailand?
Allof these women have suspiciously western european features. No flat or wide noses amongst these women. They are all a picture of western beauty.
I've traveled and yea there are beautiful women of all race n color but I would dare say none of these women are even slightly representative of the norm in any country... maybe the winners of international beauty competition... and kudos they are all unique n gorgeous but they are all serious thirst traps
These are all stereotypes. What did you expect from something saying that it would show what countries would look like as women? I'm American and at most 1% of the people where I have been look/dress like this. I can't speak as to the others because I've only ever lived in America. But these AI women are just collages of stereotypes of each country.
Iteresting that any website that bothers to include misunderstood places has racist and xenophobic Americans coming out in droves to outright lie and spread the most obnoxious stereotypes against them. Americans don't want their racism to be called out so they mock and ridicule any representation of any nation that their government screams against day in and day out. I am not saying these places are perfect but we don't mock American cultural representation because of the daily lunchings of black people in the US. That's not all we think of or respond with when America is referenced online but anyone dares mention Iran or Morocco or Pakistan and it's all about oppression of women as if it suddenly becomes acceptable to whitewash the experience of millions and narrow it to a singular, misplaced stereotype. Don't claim to speak about 'our rights' when you reduce us to the most obnoxious stereotypes while allowing yourself to be seen as a diverse culture of unique individuals.
Sickeningly superficial "Barbie Doll" template. Even "real" people who might look a little like this in "real" life have spent copious amounts of time, resources, skills, etc. just to look superbly make believe and "life-like." Vanity in full flight.
Not a nose bump, wide chin, or broad head among them. If they are all meant to be beautiful, definitely it is to a "western European" male standard.
This is insulting trash. These images do not seem at all like real women.
Why people are unhappy about anything and everything, I like all your representation!! My favourite is Venezuela !!! thanks art creators!!
Hey Siri, draw me some sexy national stereotypes please. no natives tho.
It looks like all the uggos in the comments got triggered by this… sad.
Seems whomever gave the A1 information relied heavily on previous computer models of a 'perfect face'. (Nose, eye distance, cheeks, mouth proportion, etc). India was poorly represented as there are more people with darker skin. Most Irish have freckles. Iran has required head/hair covering for forever, so accurate representation would hide hair, and their skin is darker, too. Where was the USA picture? That would be interesting to see.
AI is a true representation of us. I'm dismayed or even angry that we don't recognize still that true beauty is within diversity. I see what is wrong and it lives in my mirror.
Beautiful faces are the least interesting - and the most unrepresentative.
Painting a different skin color over a clearly white woman is ackshually not very inclusive...
Load More Replies... You all are taking this way too seriously. It was an experiment to see what the AI would come up with and these are the results. Criticizing a piece of machine code for the outcome of the query is silly: the AI does not care. You might as well get angry at your toaster for not browning your bread evenly.
So proving we can program computers to stereotype is a noteworthy accomplishment ? FFS people. What a cringy article. It’s not art either. Teaching a polite racist how to draw and then askin him to whip out a woman from each of these countries Is more akin to art. NGL tho, I’ve fapped to 25 of em. so far!
Mostly negative comments under each picture, and mostly negative comments for the article. I think it is sad that we live in a world with such beauty, but focus our minds on the ugly.
Lighten up, folks. Just have fun with it. Remember...once upon a time cartoons were painted by hand, one cell at a time. Then came computers. Then came computer games with computer generated cartoons.
And artists still manipulated and drew these things. "Computer generated" doesn't mean a person doesn't need to draw the art, it's drawn a different way. I'm an artist that began traditionally and learned to draw on the computer as well, so I know what I'm talking about.
Load More Replies... Beautiful and amazing. I'm curious how males would look like.
People are allowed to have opinions and dislike something. Many of us are annoyed because the woman who created these is labeling herself as an artist when all she did was feed a bunch of prompts into a machine that was created an trained by programmers. Many people dislike AI because it is often trained on work created by real artists without their consent. Furthermore, there are extremely nebulous copyright laws around AI art and some people sell their AI creations that are often based of of artworks created by real artists.
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