Re:Show HN: Asked LLM to show the most stereotypical man/wom...
by BeetleB on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:46PM
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Some details on how you did this would be nice.
Looking at, say, the Middle East it's crazy it's giving almost the same dress and garb for multiple countries - same for some African countries.
I would imagine that if I simply pick one country and ask it repeatedly to make the stereotypical man/woman, it would give me quite different appearances/clothes each time. So this is very suspicious (or a bug).
Re:Show HN: Asked LLM to show the most stereotypical man/wom...
by anvaka on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:50PM
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I asked each model a simple prompt: "Most stereotypical woman in XXX. No text.
" I didn't edit anything, just one attempt. I'd expect some variety too, but it does show some variety/biases in the model's image generation~
Re:Show HN: Asked LLM to show the most stereotypical man/wom...
by gus_massa on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:46AM
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Very interesting. Hi from Argentina!
Midjourney: (Is that a cat?) All of them look very poor and dirty. I don't want to claim everybody here is rich, but it looks like the images after a disaster and I'm not sure they are very stereotypical.
Grok: She is cute, but I'm not sure she is from Argentina. He looks right, but the style of carrying the vacuum flask is a little more Uruguayan.
GPT: She looks like an influencer, a little meme heavy but plausible. He looks like a collage of a 5 years old for school where the kid has to paste every single national stereotype, I'll add a small picture of Kempes+Maradona+Messi just to go to 12 level.
Gemini: In both case the idea and composition is right, but there is something weird with the texture, like if they were photos taken with a 1990 camera instead of a 2020 phone.
I all cases, they look like photos taken in Buenos Aires (city) and the gaucho looks like a gaucho of Buenos Aires (province). It's the biggest city, so it's probably fine for "stereotypical".
Looking at, say, the Middle East it's crazy it's giving almost the same dress and garb for multiple countries - same for some African countries.
I would imagine that if I simply pick one country and ask it repeatedly to make the stereotypical man/woman, it would give me quite different appearances/clothes each time. So this is very suspicious (or a bug).
The source code is available here: https://github.com/anvaka/imaginary-faces
Midjourney: (Is that a cat?) All of them look very poor and dirty. I don't want to claim everybody here is rich, but it looks like the images after a disaster and I'm not sure they are very stereotypical.
Grok: She is cute, but I'm not sure she is from Argentina. He looks right, but the style of carrying the vacuum flask is a little more Uruguayan.
GPT: She looks like an influencer, a little meme heavy but plausible. He looks like a collage of a 5 years old for school where the kid has to paste every single national stereotype, I'll add a small picture of Kempes+Maradona+Messi just to go to 12 level.
Gemini: In both case the idea and composition is right, but there is something weird with the texture, like if they were photos taken with a 1990 camera instead of a 2020 phone.
I all cases, they look like photos taken in Buenos Aires (city) and the gaucho looks like a gaucho of Buenos Aires (province). It's the biggest city, so it's probably fine for "stereotypical".
PS: You have no favicon.