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Due to the speed at which AI is being developed, this is already out of date as new updated algorithms have been released in the time it took to render these thousands of images.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.

Literacy

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.

“…I remember when I was 15 years old, I wrote an article for a newspaper in which someone said their daughter loved…”

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Literacy is about seeing. That’s what I strive for as a parent when I’m writing a book.

You’ve got to have a way of coming up with good content, a positive one, and a fun one. When I was younger, I always did. And here it is. It took me longer with things like this because you have to be realistic and kind and considerate. But the point is, people always feel sorry for you and you have to think about it.

How do you make that happen in this job?

Oh, definitely. Like, I don’t care if you have nothing in your life you’ve ever done, you know – just kind of make it the kind of experience that’s gonna go away with you, and when you realize, ‘Let’s make it the happy one’? Or if you’re like, hey, these are things you did. So just try and bring what you know and do that without thinking about other things, because you don’t know in advance about the story. I think that if you say to people, ‘That’s what you’re gonna say, ‘Okay, you’ve got to get up there and write stuff,’ they might not listen.

There was some great work in this for me recently, you know. That was like, ‘Well, that was good.’ But I remember when I was 15 years old, I wrote an article for a newspaper in which someone said their daughter loved

Maps of World Literacy