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Due to the speed at which AI is being developed, this is already out of date as new updated algorithms have been released in the time it took to render these thousands of images.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

Geology and Geography

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.

“As the earth’s inhabitants became increasingly intelligent and more and more advanced, they also changed to be more and more intelligent.”

Description

The geology and geography of the world, along with a complete picture of our planet and its resources, have a long and rich geological history. At the beginning of this century, many scientists began to understand the importance of the solar system.

In the 1980s Earth scientist and physicist Ronald Paulson wrote that “by using the solar system and the various tools of mathematics we find, perhaps, the shortest of all possible forms of geology and geography. The geologists can then derive a complete geomarket of the Earth as a whole. The geography of our planet makes it easy to map, in this way, the different regions of the globe and other specialities, and to see how the various features of every continent, country, continent, society, and language can make or cause a whole new world . . . . As the earth’s inhabitants became increasingly intelligent and more and more advanced, they also changed to be more and more intelligent. This changes the dynamics of the physical world, and changes the way people look at the universe and its resources and what this world is like.”

“…Language can make or cause a whole new world…”

The first to realize all of this was John C. B. Steinmetz, who published the “The Creation of Space” and “In Space of the Solar System” (1965), which included numerous publications and articles that revealed the evolution of Earth science (including the most recent of those two articles, “Astronomy and the Earth’s Atmosphere: A Biological Perspective”).

Maps of Geology and Geography