Artist Asks AI To Turn 30 Countries Into Women, The Results Go Viral
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
They give the prompts and make sure the website/app is running smoothly, and much more stuff that I don't know about. There are many types of artists, and AI artists are under the umbrella category of digital artists.
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There's a difference between an artist and a commercial artist. For a commercial-graphic/digital arist creating something for a client, A.I will make them exponentially better. As for artists who make there own work they will no doubt figure out how to incorporate this into something original and awesome.
Nigeria
I like the fact that she looks like various tribal traits can be seen on her face. She can lay claim to various sides of the Country.
This is interesting. The lady looks confident, beautiful in a strong kind of way, awesome, and smart a*s. The pictire says in clear terms : Don't mess with Naija.
“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
Right-click, select "Save image as...", choose your destination folder and name the file "FaceTexture.jpeg". And now you have her face texture.
Ireland
Nah - blue/black hair and bright blue eyes are a lot more Irish. This looks Scottish to me.
I'm from Scotland and just think she looks like some randomly generated AI creation.
Load More Replies...“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
Oh wow! I'm from Slovakia, right next to Ukraine, and I have a proper celebration, traditional dress, much like this one! It takes four people to get me into it, its so huge!
Those are not Ukrainian features. She should have them more delicate. Also hair not so dark brown but lighter. She looks like American dressed in some traditional Eastern European clothes.
Most of the Ukranians I've encountered have stunning electric blue eyes.
Seychelles
i dont get how people used cover their freckles but now everyone just HAS to have them ughhh
In many cultures fair, pale skin is desired. Freckles were and are still sometimes seen as being ugly flaws to be removed.
Load More Replies...Palestine
Do you know anything about Hamas? The ignorance here is despicable. The Hamas are a resistance group against Israel (whose actions I actively condemn. Violence is violence.) The Hamas have better things to do than police the women. They fight (taking a very wrong approach) for their cause, which is the liberation of Palestine.
Load More Replies...Women are allowed to show that much hair there? I learned something today.
Palestine is not as restrictive as other Arab countries. Right now they have to worry about all the Israeli settlers moving into their land in the West Bank.
Load More Replies...She looks like the virgin Mary. Simply breathtaking...
Lol the artist is clearly an antisemitic leftard for not including Israel, while including Palestine, which isn't even a country.
Actually, there is NO such country called Palestine. Simply a term covering the general area.
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
Droopy eye. Am I the only one who sees the AI has trouble with eyes and symmetry?
This is not the only image of a woman with a dark skin and very obvious Caucasian features.
She does look quite a bit like a few Ethiopians and Eritreans I can think of. No blackfacing imho.
Load More Replies...Greece
Misconception that Greeks are all with dark hair and tanned skin. Quite a few fair in colors and not uncommon.
Load More Replies...I think people are missing the point of these renditions. They are taking what is wonderful about the country and turning it into a female likeness. Hence why she is presented with alabaster skin and blue eyes. She is matching what people visualize when they think about Greece, all the blue and lime washed buildings, decorations and the flag.
Yes, blue and green eyes. Its not that uncommon for Greece that people think along with people with fair hair. Some regions like the Peloponnese and Crete have a good majority of light colored eyes
Load More Replies...Spain
It probably is. When doing AI art, I noticed that including a celebrity in the prompt gives you better control over the results. If you look at "Ireland" on this list, it's pretty obvious Elizabeth Olsen was included in the prompt :)
Load More Replies...Funnily enough, looks more British than Spanish.
Load More Replies...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
She looks like a character out of those hidden object games you download off Facebook, play once, and then get instantly bored of.
Mexico
I don’t see how this is reflective of Mexico as a country but rather its culture at a certain time of year. Isn’t exclusive to Mexico though
I think this could have been done much better, I'm a little disappointed
IA does not distinguish between an afro descendant and an Hispanic half-blood
China
Switzerland
I see it.. just a little though. There is another actress too but I cannot recall her name or what she was in..
Load More Replies...As a Swiss, you hardly find (naturally) blond people here. The most common hair color by far is brown, then black or grey/white.
This one has potential, but AI missed with proportions and how things are lined up (such as teeth) too much. It looks...awkward.
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
Dude, you don't have to spew negativity to every image just bc they don't align with what you think they should. There are also french Canadians in Canada. This image is valid and beautiful too. Try contributing something actually benefitial to this commentary
Load More Replies...If you want to represent ALL of Canada with a single image of 1 woman, this is 100% inaccurate! This could be maybe Alberta alone? Maybe Quebec as well? but not at all representative of all of Canada! We are a huge country with MANY differences, and not many similarities. Good luck getting us accurately represented
I assume you live in eastern Canada. I live in BC and this looks very much like Canada to me.
Load More Replies...Look like the German lady from a few countries ago immigrated to Canada and stopped braiding her hair.
It’s a square jaw and they are more common than you think
Load More Replies...This is clearly a mixed race pic. The features are quite native while the colouring also suggests british heritage Personally, I genetically stem from 3 of the 4 major inhabitors of Canada. Save for a bit of Viking I did not get, I completely approve of this image. Beautiful. Also to note folks... many metis have blonde and blue or red and green features. Stop virtue signaling you appear uneducated...
Ummm. In BC there are 9000 First Nations peoples. Total. So, this pic is a better representation all around. Not everything has to be political
In our very multicultural country, it is impossible to come up with an 'ethnic' identity. True, that the first European arrivals were French and British, but this pic represents represents neither. Simply a mashed up pic of a tourist in Banff.
Jamaica
I feel like she should get her collarbones checked out at the doctor
Which one, there seem to be so many to choose from...
Load More Replies...Ok her hair is straight at the top then locs at the bottom that's not even possible 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This looks like it analyzed pictures of Jamaican runners and mixed it with a some other images. The hair doesn't make sense it looks like it goes from straight to some kind of braids at the end.
It's the macabre of flags in the background tor me. It's like it got Jamaica but then it mixed up other Caribbean flags.
Iran
Laughable, given what’s been going on with human rights there these days.
Does that change the beauty of the people and the land? No. "Laughable" but I'm sure all the other countries represented in these aren't squeaky clean.
Load More Replies...You really wouldn't know until you're already married. Lucky guess.?
Saudi Arabia
Full mask with only eyes showing! AI missed the mark almost as bad as when it gave miss Venezuela wings! Everybody knows that it's the Peruvian's that have wings. 😆
Load More Replies...this is saudi TRADITIONAL dress ( bedouin i think) not government inforced law dress.
The Bedouin are actually a persecuted minority in Saudi Arabia....
Load More Replies...Burka is a religous covering. Its not cultural. Im assuming this is a traditional Saudi dress, but I am not sure.
Load More Replies...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
I thought this exact same before I even saw the comment. I was like that’s definitely Root.
Load More Replies...The most stunning French women have black hair, pale skin tone, & brilliant blue eyes.
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
No matter what I bet her name would be Maria :)
Load More Replies...She looks like she's about to tell you why your existence is a terrible mistake
Austria
They literally all have the exact same face, even the black women.
Load More Replies...India
As an Indian, I agree, but I can’t tell exactly how to make it better. Still nice tho. And if this was in India, her hair would be tied up, probably with white flowers in it. Can’t think of anything else, but it’s missing something.
Load More Replies...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
As a portuguese woman, everything is wrong. The clothes, the architecture, even the earrings, everything is wrong. It's impossible to identify Portugal in this image.
Germany
So true. Everybody associates Germany with Bavaria, which, as a northerner, is so annoying. Germany is culturally diverse - different dialects, foods and customs. Bavaria is certainly not my cultural standard, nor for the majority of Germans.
Load More Replies...That's just Bavaria... which is the equivalent of a federal state. Would be the same as thinking any US-American is a cowboy with a Texan accent.
Yeah no, of course she's not representative because as a true German, she'd be wearing a Jack Wolfskin jacket and/or some other practical clothing. Duh!
only 8% of the girls in germany are blond....there are way more blonds to the west in the netherlands, to the east in polen, in the north in scandinavia and even in the south in austria and switzerland
Stereotypical schlock pic of what people associate with Germany. Most Bavarians are dark haired, the blondes are in the north.
Let's be honest: an AI drawing Germany as a woman could have come out far worse.
El Salvador
That's missing a lot of our native american features but the skin tone is close.
Pretty sure this is a dark skinned picture of the princess of Wales....
Venezuela
Why in the world are you getting downvoted for staying your opinion? I have to agree that all of these are pretty darn ridiculous and don’t accurately represent the ethnicity in any shape or form. They all look like the same woman copy and pasted over and over.
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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
Have you ever been to Morocco?! Or even know how to place it on a map??
I’ll have AI do it. Then call myself a cartographer and worldly explorer!
Load More Replies...Poland
maybe they mixed The Netherlands and Poland up
Load More Replies...You do not have to know that and AI may not know it jet, but in Poland we do not have wind mills like that too often. Most of those that survived to our times are fully wooden. Alsow that type of head piece is not part of the traditional national outfit. I'm pointing that out only as a suggestion. Probably if I was not from Poland I would not know that. Your work is impressive.
the face shape, hair, and eyes are all pretty accurate, but the headpiece and the windmill are not so accurate.
These are all amazing, no doubt. I didn’t see any plus size illustration. Women are not only slim with pointed nose. Or is the AI programmed to only draw slim? Please educate me if I’m missing something.
As a polish girl I don't really see it, it's not even close cultured, they prob mixed Poland with a mother country or something
It's interesting to see which countries are associated with blonde people and which aren't.
New Zealand
Given that only 18% is Maori and over 70% is white, this is a pretty accurate. It didn't say indigenous, it said turn a country into a woman
Load More Replies...If this is New Zealand, I'd like to see what Australia and South Africa looks like.
Costa Rica
It’s the smile monster from 2022! RUN!
Load More Replies...Scrolled down because I knew someone else was going to make this comment :)
Load More Replies...She looks like she is about to suck your soul from your body.
They should end it with a pic of Honey Boo-Boo's mom representing the US (at least the dumb half of it, anyway!). That would be perfect! Also, Canada and New Zealand look too much alike.
Netherlands
Pakistan
Turkey
Italy
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO. I’m 75% Italian American—this is RIDICULOUSLY awful.
Argentina
Australia
Just went through all of these .... What a crock of absolute....... Im not one for negativity, but my god, wheres the reality in these
They left out NZ after all, why did they have to do Australia, USA, and Canada if they can't do it right? I downvoted all of them. This AI is pretty awfully white supremacist.
It... it isn't human. It has no emotions. It has no biases unless it's specifically programmed to be biased. It bases these images on the majority of images online showing people from these places.
Load More Replies...Australia lost it's blonde haired, blue eyed surfie majority decades ago. We are much more multi cultural these days (thank goodness) and blondes are getting kind of rare.
Modern clothes? I thought the theme was drawing from the past….where’s the prison stripes?
USA
Why does noone complain here? This could have been a Native American woman :/
It could have been a black person, a hispanic.. Canada could have been native too.. so what? All of these "countries" would look different depending on the perspective to individuals. This doesn't look like the USA I know because the USA is not a person. But some people who live here look like that. It's one representation, like ALL the others
Load More Replies...As an American, I find this take ridiculous. The VAST majority of us do not go around looking like we play cowboy/girl dress up, and drape our bodies in our flag. It's a stereotype I'm getting sick of because it's so off base. If you believe this is the average American, you don't know any of us.
I was curious how they were going to take it. People from California look diff from people in Minnesota who look diff from people in Florida, New York, Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, etc etc. all these small small countries across the world want the USA to have one single image or message and that's not what we are. We are 50 separate cultures built around a melting pot of many races, religions, outside cultures, and personalities. Love or hate some of them, most of them, none of them but they are all there.
Load More Replies...This is representative of Texas, not anything close to the US as a whole. It's easy to stereotype Americans based on news reports or politics, but real people and real places, not so much. This whole post made me roll my eyes, that's a very unintelligent artificial intelligence... Anybody know the ethnicity of the artist? I guess that's what factors in most, right? Also, sorry southerners here, but that bruise on her face indicates the Dallas cowboys just lost a game 🙄😮💨😪
lets draw women from around the world. MAKE SURE THEY ALL HAVE HIGH CHEEKBONES AND JAW LINES THAT COULD CUT GLASS. some square jaws ok. but no round cheeks. NO NO NO. these aren't women they are the same face just slightly adjusted.
Don't forget the perfect little nose and bright white teeth.
Load More Replies...America would be the most difficult to stereotype...white, black, brown, asian... Urban, suburban, country... East, west, south, north... Some would like her to represent the US but man, many more would beg to differ.
I think it's just whats most common in each country tbh. Usa is majority white and brazil is majority black i think, so makes sense that an ai would pop out a white american and a black Brazilian to represent those countries. I feel like to actually make it accurate, the ai should get better at race mixing in accurate proportions
Load More Replies...General comment, just posting here because it's currently last in the list... How is it that an artist, who could otherwise have created these on their own, decides to outsource their creativeness to an AI program (which claims copyright over all "work" generated, so can't even sell for a profit), and then doesn't actually check that it's decent work? Almost all of these, and especially the portrayals of white women, looked like the same person in a different ensemble. Where's the creativity? Where's the artistry? This seems like nothing more than a lazy artist who forgot to fact check his exciting new program....
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.
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.
