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Countries differ from each other in a multitude of ways, such as geography, culture, history, political systems, economies, and demographics. However, these things aren't always apparent when you visit them. So, digital artist Crypto Tea got interested in how others see the big picture. Then, she used artificial intelligence (AI) to depict it.

The young artist used the technology to reimagine various countries as women, and after she shared the results, the digital portraits immediately took off. The series portraying countries as humans has over 2.8M views and almost 14K likes on X (formerly Twitter) and has only fueled the discussion of AI in art.

So, what do countries as humans (ai-generated) look like? Here is the perfect compilation of countries as humans to show you what these countries might resemble if embodied as human individuals. Scroll down and get ready to be hypnotized by the magic of AI through these digital portraits!

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Norway

Norwegian woman with green eyes and blond hair in front of the aurora shining

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Nigeria

Nigerian woman wearing golden earrings

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“Being in the crypto, NFT, and Web3 space, I’m always on the hunt for new groundbreaking technologies that’ll change how we live,” Crypto Tea told BuzzFeed.

“I first became fascinated with AI once ChatGPT became public, and being an artist with my own NFT collection, my mind was blown when I found out we could use AI to generate art.”

#3

Japan

Japanese woman with black hair in front of mountain Fuji

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Ireland

Irish woman with green eyes and red hair

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“I wanted to put AI to the test and see if it could not only pick up features of different people around the world but also cultures—which it did (i.e., the cowboy hat for a woman imagined as the US),” the digital artist explained the origins of the AI countries as humans project.

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Crypto Tea is fascinated by the potential for AI art. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the next generation of influencers and content creators would be AI artists,” she said. “Imagine an AI that studies every post on Instagram and knows what gets the best engagement and what people want to hear—the world is changing before our eyes.”

#5

Ukraine

Ukrainian woman with brown hair and green eyes

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Seychelles

Seychelloi woman with flowers

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Palestine

Palestinian woman with long black hair

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And she’s not the only one who sees it that way. “A year or two back, if you’d asked me whether graphic design was a safe job, I’d have said yes, it was a pretty safe job—anything in the creative industries is a pretty safe job from racing against the machine. But now, actually, I would be somewhat worried if I was a graphic designer,” Toby Walsh, professor of AI at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, told The Syndey Morning Herald.

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#8

Ethiopia

Ethiopian woman wearing big earrings

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Greece

Greek woman with blue eyes

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Spain

Spanish woman with rose in her hair

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However, Walsh questions whether or not this is sustainable, both for artists and these programs. If AI-generated work takes money, recognition, and opportunities away from artists, many will be forced to look for other endeavors.

“We have to work out ways to ensure that the people on whose work the systems depend do get some sort of reward so that they continue to produce art that will continue to be used to train future systems.”

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United Kingdom

British woman wearing green hat

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Mexico

Mexican woman with flowers in her hair

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China

Chinese woman with black hair and flowers in it

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Switzerland

Swiss woman with blond hair in the mountains

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Thinking about AI being used to increase the potential of art to broaden what is possible, Walsh said, “I think the best way to envisage artificial intelligence is something that augments us. We’ve always picked up and used tools, and here’s a new tool that will allow many of us to make much more beautiful art than we could without the tool.”

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Canada

Canadian woman with blond hair

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Jamaica

Jamaican woman with black hair

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Iran

Iranian woman wearing shawl in the flower filed

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi woman wearing abaya

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As an example, Walsh pointed out that photography didn’t destroy painting. “Art is more than just making realistic images. It’s about asking questions and addressing aspects of the human condition, whether that’s about falling in love and losing loved ones and human mortality and all of the troubling questions that art helps us to think about,” he explained.

“Machines aren’t going to speak to us in the same way that artists speak to us because they don’t share our humanity.”

#19

France

French woman with black hair wearing purple dress

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Brazil

Brazilian woman with black curls

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Austria

Austrian woman wearing hat with flowers

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India

Indian woman wearing bindis

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But not everyone is psyched about the change. According to The Verge, a trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against the creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which has just created its own AI art generator, DreamUp.

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The artists—Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz—allege that these organizations have infringed the rights of “millions of artists” by training their AI tools on five billion images scraped from the web “with­out the con­sent of the orig­i­nal artists.”

#23

Portugal

Portuguese woman wearing red shawl

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Germany

German woman with braids

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El Salvador

Salvadorian woman with dark brown hair

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Venezuela

Venezuelan woman with wings

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Whether or not these systems infringe on copyright law is a complicated question that experts say will need to be settled in the courts. The creators of AI art tools usually argue that the training of this software on copyrighted data is covered (in the US, at least) by the fair use doctrine. However, cases involving fair use still need to be litigated, and there are numerous complicated factors regarding AI art generators.

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#27

Morocco

Moroccan woman wearing djellaba

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Poland

Polish woman wearing red hat

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New Zealand

New Zealander woman with green eyes

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Costa Rica

Costa Rican woman holding a sloth

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Note: this post originally had 37 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.