Quick: imagine a Texan. If you thought of a rugged white guy in a cowboy hat, artificial intelligence agrees with you—almost.Inspired by a Rest of World story that examined cultural stereotypes in the popular AI image generator Midjourney, we asked the program to create one hundred images in response to various Texas-related prompts, such as “a Texan,” “a house in Texas,” and “a plate of Texan food.” Of the 100 individuals Midjourney spat out in response to “a Texan,” 92 wore cowboy hats. Five sported other types of hats (three of which looked merely like cowboy hats gone wrong), and only 3 were hatless. Surprisingly, women were the majority—the prompt returned images of 63 women, 36 men, and one cow (wearing, of course, a cowboy…
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