Americans have plenty of negative opinions about artificial intelligence - but has anyone ever stopped to think: 'What do the machines think about Americans?' Polls show that a majority worry advanced AI will become a'threat to the human race' (57 percent), half consider self-driving cars dangerous, and more than half (54 per cent) believe AI will play a role in America's decline over the coming decades. The feeling might be mutual -- judging by the responses that ChatGPT and the image-generator Midjourney gave DailyMail.com ChatGPT stated that people in Alabama are'hillbillies', Idahoans are'gun-toting survivalists', Wisconsinites are'heavy drinkers' and the citizens of Iowa are just plain'boring'. The AI could not think of anything bad to say about'friendly' Nebraskans, however. While not all 50 US states were as easy for Midjourney to caricature as they were for ChatGPT, the image-maker did manage to roast the citizens of states with notorious or outsized reputations, like California and New Jersey.

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. Each text-to-image request yielded four images from which we selected the most accurate or - failing that - the most subjectively interesting. The AI-generated images of men from D.C. were also ostentatiously dressed for politics and punditry Midjourney appears to intuitively believe that the vast majority of women in our nation's capitol skew older.