EXCLUSIVE: This is what AI REALLY thinks of us: DailyMail.com asked t…

Artificial intelligence may not be sentient yet, but complex machine-learning algorithms like ChatGPT are slowly but surely developing their own opinions and prejudices about us.

Midjourney, an AI program that creates images from textual descriptions, has some unusual and sometimes comically simplistic ideas on what makes the quintessential American resident of each US state.   

Now in its fifth version, Midjourney’s inner workings are a closely held trade secret of the non-profit research lab that created the AI, unlike its text-to-image competitors DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, which use an open-source model.

But DailyMail.com was able to figure out some of its quirks as it requested photorealistic images of the ‘average’ or ‘stereotypical’ representative of each US state.

Each text-to-image request yielded four images from which we selected the most accurate or – failing that – the most subjectively interesting. 

The results were illuminating, if not always coherent or…