aiTLAS

What is all this?

The images and text on this website have all been generated by artificial intelligence, particularly DeepAI for the text, and Stable Diffusion for the images. This allows us a unique opportunity to see how AI "sees" the world around us.

Consider this a parody of a real atlas, with generated images of maps, food, people, and my surprise favorite: some very unusual animals.

Biases, Cringe, and Outright Racism

There is a lot of controversy about the material AI is trained on. Most of this revolves around copyright, but this art experiment is designed to explore how AI, particularly Stable Diffusion, renders people of different ethnicities. There is a clear American bias, but when it comes to outright racist visuals, the AI succeeds far more than it fails. However, I have left the bad examples in situ so developers can learn how to make AI more equitable.

The Joy of AI

AI is a moving train, and some of its flaws resulted in some really fun images, particularly animals.

Due to the speed at which AI is being developed, this is already out of date as new updated algorithms have been released in the time it took to render these thousands of images. This will likely result in some of the more problematic areas moot by the time you read this. Future AI will have less errors, which won't result in as many of the funny images you'll find in this site.

Climate Change

Disclaimer:

The maps and text on this page have been generated by DeepAI.org and Stable Diffusion respectively. They should be considered an artistic parody of a real atlas and never be mistaken for, in any way, accurately representing the reality of the world or its people. Please do not use any of what you find here for any serious decision making, excepting, of course, for improving the artificial intelligence algorithms to more equitably represent the people and cultures of this world in all their complexity and beauty. Everything that follows this sentence has been generated by AI.

“…Even as we make this statement, this debate becomes louder and louder.”

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Climate change is occurring across the globe? How do we define the “science and technology community”?

Many people question this. They think it is a simple matter of what technologies are necessary or useful or beneficial, and they wonder whether we need more than the technology industry’s technological focus on research and development to protect the environment, protect property, or protect our children. But even as we make this statement, this debate becomes louder and louder.

I have done my research on this. As a scientist working with climate change, I study issues such as global warming, the global distribution of greenhouse gas emissions, and the role of information. That’s where this debate becomes complicated. I have not included data on those topics, but I have studied the literature before making this statement, to measure the response of nontechnical people regarding the science, technology, and environment they believe has been lost, or have failed. I am talking about scientists who have found it difficult to accept the fact that, for example, the current data suggest that global CO 2 concentrations have increased only slightly more than 10% so far this century and are likely to decline substantially or become much more common in the future. They are also aware that it is not known how the levels in the atmosphere would be affected by the end of this century or who will benefit in reaching such limits. I have yet to address these concerns. I have not defined how much damage and carbon dioxide emissions would be needed, how much human activity would be

Maps of Climate Change