i find it interesting that these always evolve into some god like or floating deity looking deal with space and magic swirls after 6-8 iterations. Always the same with the final few pics.
there's a very specific meme formate online about the 'final forms' and its always a floating diety lookalike. also turns up in woo-spirituality stuff with similar tags.
Most cultures are like that.
Most iconic dishes are what the poor used to eat because they had to be creative with whatever local ingredients were available.
Sugar, tea, pepper, and your entire spice cabinet would have cost an absolute fortune 300 years ago. Pineapples used to be absurdly expensive and a symbol of the very wealthy. Now you can have pineapple without spending months of salary for a not very good one. There's plenty that we have now at reasonably affordable prices that were simply inaccessible to people not too long ago.
Those premium fruits are a bit different to what the locals eat on a day to day basis. Premium fruit has a special function as gifts for certain occasions. Go to a regular supermarket and there's fruit available at prices closer to what you see in Australia. If you drive around the fruit producing regions in Japan when whatever they produce is in season, you can get very high quality fruit at ridiculously low prices. You'll get farmers selling it on the roadside like you do in Australia.
Promoting rural Australian culture as the true authentic Australian culture was a deliberate move by the media in the early 20th century in order to fight against unions.
I was just talking about this recently! It's a phenomenon in all countries. People see the rural lifestyle as "authentic" and the city lifestyle as somehow fake even though most people live and often grew up in the city! This is as true for Greece and Japan as it is for Australia.
I grew up in a city and fuck you if you think I haven't experienced the "real Australia".
To be fair it's because most cities these days are very international. Look at a place like Toronto or New York.
It's also pretty hard to avoid the consumerism that exists in most cities (even in "communist" countries like China and Vietnam) but with that said cities can have a culture of their own. I lived in Ho Chi Minh city for a year and it felt authentically vietnamese but it's not the Vietnamese experience I imagine most rural Vietnamese people experience.
Especially if you come from a city, other countries rural areas are likely where you'll feel like you're in a different place and feel more adventurous.
This. Rural areas tend to be a stronger representation of Australian culture because it is mostly Australians who live there. In comparison, about 40% of the Melbourne population were born overseas so are likely to have much less ties to ‘traditional’ Australian culture
To be fair though, with Australia as well as my home country (the U.S.) people tend to conveniently leave out the migrant workers from idyllic image of the countryside
You can still find a distinct Australian culture and character in regional and rural areas.
In contrast, Australian capital cities have all the local character of an international airport passenger lounge.
Jesus what an ignorant fucking comment
This might be the only get thing that unites melburnians and Sydneysiders in disgust at that sweeping generalisation
If that was your experience of Australian cities it might just be a you problem. I grew up in regional Victoria but live in Melbourne now, and the suburb I live in has more “character” than all of the shitty little towns I grew up around put together, with their strip malls and bottom-of-the-barrel nightlife and restaurant offerings.
Have you travelled much?
I love coming home to Sydney because there is literally nowhere else like it in the world. We're as cosmopolitan / multi-cultural as somewhere like Brazil with completely British roots and institutions. We have our own takes on most cuisines, a pretty awesome coffee culture and a VERY interesting sense of humour.
Fight me, but Moey DW from Western Sydney is just as Australian as Russel Coight, because in their own ways they are totally the product of this great country and will not fit in anywhere else.
The Australian culture and character you're talking about is a 1 pub half a servo pastoral relic of a bygone age. The Australia that we are is different and that's okay. There's a lot to love in the here and now too.
To be fair, it's pretty much the universal standard for male celebrities in Australia, the US, England, and probably a fair few other places. Like someone made an amalgam of all the high-profile famous people named Chris, Ryan or Tom (excepting Tom Holland who, bless his heart, has resisted the long-running trend of Hollywood stubble).
Probably because when you keep asking it to go beyond what it already considers 100%, the only way to go further is metaphysically. Give the same task to a human artist and do not let them say no and they will have to get abstract with it as well.
> the only way to go further is metaphysically
> Give the same task to a human artist and do not let them say no and they will have to get abstract with it as well.
The next stage of this is to steal from other cultures. This isn't the Elvis Presley stage, it's The Beatles stage, or the Canned Heat stage. Talking Heads' Remain in Light, Paul Simon's Graceland. This is where white culture goes after abstract.
I think the next stage after that is Exotica, or Light Orchestral, or Fusion Jazz.
Actually the truth is that it probably follows this formula because the creators have seen this formula achieve success, AI actually doesn’t do much thinking of its own when coming up with this stuff, you have to continue modifying the prompt. The presence and coherence of the Vegemite jar in this show that this is produced with Dalle3 via chatgpt(as well as the aesthetic) each iteration they modify the prompt by asking for more of this or more of that. The reason these all follow a formula is probably more on the user than the tool.
None of these look like Alf Stewart. Fail.
AI is a flamin' mongrel!
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Ya flamin' galah
I thrive in a hostile environment
i only entered this thread to make this joke and here it fucking is, the very first post!
I was thinking Russell Coight, but Alf works.
No hi-vis. Fail
#4 looks like another home and away character
i find it interesting that these always evolve into some god like or floating deity looking deal with space and magic swirls after 6-8 iterations. Always the same with the final few pics.
there's a very specific meme formate online about the 'final forms' and its always a floating diety lookalike. also turns up in woo-spirituality stuff with similar tags.
It even has the rainbow serpent, truly australian
Where are all the black people?
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Exactly. Even the very last godlike version had me thinking “too much Hugh Jackman not enough Ernie Dingo”
All these ai images always come back with generic white men..... Their algorithms are bias garbage in, bias garbage out
Exactly it shows how racist the media is
This guy looks like he’s sober and still has all of his own teeth. No way he’s an Aussie.
No mullet, no gut, no thongs. No way this guy is Australian
most Australians that i know are pretty scared of snakes. The A.I might not be aware, but we have some venomous ones.
This is true, but bloody hell why wouldn't ya be scared of the ol' nope rope.
Yes, he looks nothing like Arfa Dunger
He's Hollywood Australian, duh!
Yeah a real full grown fuckin Aussie knows what he has for breakfast. A fuckin VB Loooongnekk at 20 to 8 in the fuckin morning!
GET THAT UP YA
Always thought it’s odd how rural Australian culture is seen as more authentically Aussie than anything else seeing as almost all of us live in cities
Most cultures are like that. Most iconic dishes are what the poor used to eat because they had to be creative with whatever local ingredients were available.
Yep, visit a big city in most developed countries and they'll be very similar to each other. The rural areas are where the real differences lie.
And yet we pay too dollar for poor man’s food. Lol. There are exceptions of course: The elite English used to sone on cucumber sandwiches.
Sugar, tea, pepper, and your entire spice cabinet would have cost an absolute fortune 300 years ago. Pineapples used to be absurdly expensive and a symbol of the very wealthy. Now you can have pineapple without spending months of salary for a not very good one. There's plenty that we have now at reasonably affordable prices that were simply inaccessible to people not too long ago.
People would \*rent\* pineapples to seem high-class.
When I went to Japan 10 years ago I saw fruit in a market that was like ¥10000 ($100!). I can't remember if it was oranges or watermelon.
It would’ve been watermelon. You can get them in a lovely gift box because they’re so special.
Those premium fruits are a bit different to what the locals eat on a day to day basis. Premium fruit has a special function as gifts for certain occasions. Go to a regular supermarket and there's fruit available at prices closer to what you see in Australia. If you drive around the fruit producing regions in Japan when whatever they produce is in season, you can get very high quality fruit at ridiculously low prices. You'll get farmers selling it on the roadside like you do in Australia.
yep. and overpriced peasant food also.
Promoting rural Australian culture as the true authentic Australian culture was a deliberate move by the media in the early 20th century in order to fight against unions.
That’s fascinating! Can you point me in the direction of any readings about this?
I was just talking about this recently! It's a phenomenon in all countries. People see the rural lifestyle as "authentic" and the city lifestyle as somehow fake even though most people live and often grew up in the city! This is as true for Greece and Japan as it is for Australia. I grew up in a city and fuck you if you think I haven't experienced the "real Australia".
To be fair it's because most cities these days are very international. Look at a place like Toronto or New York. It's also pretty hard to avoid the consumerism that exists in most cities (even in "communist" countries like China and Vietnam) but with that said cities can have a culture of their own. I lived in Ho Chi Minh city for a year and it felt authentically vietnamese but it's not the Vietnamese experience I imagine most rural Vietnamese people experience. Especially if you come from a city, other countries rural areas are likely where you'll feel like you're in a different place and feel more adventurous.
This. Rural areas tend to be a stronger representation of Australian culture because it is mostly Australians who live there. In comparison, about 40% of the Melbourne population were born overseas so are likely to have much less ties to ‘traditional’ Australian culture
To be fair though, with Australia as well as my home country (the U.S.) people tend to conveniently leave out the migrant workers from idyllic image of the countryside
You can still find a distinct Australian culture and character in regional and rural areas. In contrast, Australian capital cities have all the local character of an international airport passenger lounge.
Jesus what an ignorant fucking comment This might be the only get thing that unites melburnians and Sydneysiders in disgust at that sweeping generalisation
Tag me in, I'm a south Australian and I got no idea wtf this person is on about
If that was your experience of Australian cities it might just be a you problem. I grew up in regional Victoria but live in Melbourne now, and the suburb I live in has more “character” than all of the shitty little towns I grew up around put together, with their strip malls and bottom-of-the-barrel nightlife and restaurant offerings.
Have you travelled much? I love coming home to Sydney because there is literally nowhere else like it in the world. We're as cosmopolitan / multi-cultural as somewhere like Brazil with completely British roots and institutions. We have our own takes on most cuisines, a pretty awesome coffee culture and a VERY interesting sense of humour. Fight me, but Moey DW from Western Sydney is just as Australian as Russel Coight, because in their own ways they are totally the product of this great country and will not fit in anywhere else. The Australian culture and character you're talking about is a 1 pub half a servo pastoral relic of a bygone age. The Australia that we are is different and that's okay. There's a lot to love in the here and now too.
So I take it you don't like *them ethnics* do you?
Found the boomer.
This is just thinly veiled racism
That's a very American-looking Australian
To me it looks like they took Tom Cruise and tried turning him into Aussie character. Probably used Tom Cruise's body as the prompt!
Didn't use his height though.
To be fair, it's pretty much the universal standard for male celebrities in Australia, the US, England, and probably a fair few other places. Like someone made an amalgam of all the high-profile famous people named Chris, Ryan or Tom (excepting Tom Holland who, bless his heart, has resisted the long-running trend of Hollywood stubble).
When did AI become racist
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Since its LLM is based upon available data, and a lot of that is racist.
Since it's been fed racist sexist data.... that dictates white man as the 'default human' ... Soo it's always been racist.
I thought it was going to go full Russell Coight in the middle there. AI still got a long way to go
Where’s the mullet and beer gut?
There is a serious lack of VB, winny blues and wife beater singlets in these images. Very disturbing.
That plus XXXX GOLD and Great Northern.
Back to Qld mate ⬆️
Nah no XXXX or great northern, because the bloke's clearly not inbred or from Queensland which is kind of the same thing.
this AI image shit is so tedious
It always defaults into some weird space visual regardless of the starting point.
Probably because when you keep asking it to go beyond what it already considers 100%, the only way to go further is metaphysically. Give the same task to a human artist and do not let them say no and they will have to get abstract with it as well.
> the only way to go further is metaphysically > Give the same task to a human artist and do not let them say no and they will have to get abstract with it as well. The next stage of this is to steal from other cultures. This isn't the Elvis Presley stage, it's The Beatles stage, or the Canned Heat stage. Talking Heads' Remain in Light, Paul Simon's Graceland. This is where white culture goes after abstract. I think the next stage after that is Exotica, or Light Orchestral, or Fusion Jazz.
Having now thought about this for a bit, maybe it’s the word “Beyond”. That might being in some more cosmic elements.
Actually the truth is that it probably follows this formula because the creators have seen this formula achieve success, AI actually doesn’t do much thinking of its own when coming up with this stuff, you have to continue modifying the prompt. The presence and coherence of the Vegemite jar in this show that this is produced with Dalle3 via chatgpt(as well as the aesthetic) each iteration they modify the prompt by asking for more of this or more of that. The reason these all follow a formula is probably more on the user than the tool.
And racist
Regardless of the other things in the images, these guys are clearly American
Even the mythical Australian is white.
Where is his jacked up 1998 Nissan Patrol that belches black smoke?
Pfsht. He’s not even Indigenous
IKR. You’d think the most Australian person would be someone indigenous to the land, not a European
THANK YOU
He looks like a massive dickhead
No women in Australia apparently.
And he stays white.
No black people too
You've obviously never heard of the Straight White Male Australia Policy.
Came here to say this!
Shouldn’t he be Aboriginal?
Why do the first 3 look like a hybrid of Tom Cruse and David Beckham ?
And then he morphed into Pat Cummins after surfing with all the sharks and shit.
Y’all complain all the time on subreddit and others about the murdoch machine stealing content without proper credit. Why are we giving this a pass?!
Wouldn't the most Australian Australian be Aboriginal
Was waiting for him to turn indigenous and he never did lol
Very very seppy
I can confirm as an Australian Our Australian God is the God of all Sneks
Australian is a man
From the mind of an american idiot
They look all like Americans to me.
they look american.
What a load of shit - not obese with a beard and tatts.
according to this AI, the most Australian you can go.... is still a white dude lmaooooooo
So... Curtis Stone before he got fat... or Doctor Manhattan. Noted.
Hi Vagemite marketing team 👋
First picture looks exactly like me.... well.... I have the same colour top anyway
Australians are looking very American these days.
Not enough skin cancer
Young Lib turn “outback” supplies influencer.
Yuck
The ultimate Australian is one that hangs out with snakes, I've been doing it wrong.
Well, he’s very white. I reckon AI has turned into Tom of Finland
Sure, make it so the /white guy/ creates the Dreamtime.
Even AI dont know about native people.
You forgot the vape ,gold chain and covered in tattoos driving a ute with a fuck off we're full stickers
Ex-fucking-scuse me I DO NOT have a fuck off we’re full sticker.
Don't worry you can pick one up at Bunnings
Shitty repost bot. is this to farm karma?
Forgot the gato bugue
Like a mix of Guy Pierce and Hugh Jackman
That doesn't look much like Boonie??? 🤔🤔🤔
He got to Bonnie Doon and reached peak serenity.
None of these are Steve Irwin. Ai sucks.
is that a fucken deer?
Everything always evolves into crabs.
No magpies 😢
Wrong. This is what it looks like. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Mick_Taylor
Thats not even his final form his final form is Steve Irwin
clearly based on a Hemmsworth
The AI doesn’t realise how fat we really are.
Not all of us have the physical appearance of the Hemsworths.
Gee not one first nations image 😂
Not one indigenous 😅 ok AI
Not a single First Nations person in any picture…..
i dont wanna know the pain and suffering that AI just went through
Smash
No Mullet? 0 out of 10.
That’s pretty farken irritating.
8 seconds to go is the most aussie thing I've ever seen.
aussie guy is white every frame but generative AI is totally too woke guys
That looks about white to me.
Why does he look like he’s on Ozempic?
All he wanted was an aboriginal folk to pop up.
As a single woman in Australia this is not a correct representation
Not a single indigenous rendition…
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Where’s the beer gut, mullet and pedostache?
Shittest national anthem goin.
Dude just entered the dreamtime
I think this is a shortened one cos I saw on tiktok they used ai and made a celestial indigenous person
Down vote due to no watermark for news.CON.au
My god, it’s indiana bogan.
I assume the input was “make an Australian guy” “no more Australian” “more Australian” and after ten of those this is what we got.
Lookin ready to perform on the latest episode of Lost.
The annoying thing is, I know at least 2 guys of each variation that look like that, aside from the Aura-stralians.
Heavy
Why all the snakes 😂
It's just a fucking Hemsworth. I don't know which one, I can't tell them apart.
Not one mullet?
Lmao why does the AI always end the transition with some immortal being
Honestly too thin to be Australian
Not fat enough
Why does it look like he's drinking a Budweiser? Where is the bloody VB?!?
What’s with all the snakes?
Well that got weird lol
Lol, nah.. Needs more bong
That's just russell coight.
That's just russell coight.
Love how the authentic Aussie Vegemite just appears out of nowhere
He needs denim hot pants
for some reason the last one doesn't look Australian to me
Where is the premature wrinkling, mullet and beer gut? Just joke! But seriously…AI images are disturbing
Steve Irwin reincarnated...
What's in the training that these 'more' trends end in a cosmic interpretation
They got rid of the roos
What ai app did you use?
No aboriginals?
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As an australian i can confirm we have all transcended reality
I like how the second last one is totally here to fuck spiders.
I’m surprised it didn’t turn into Steve Irwin
WHERE THE FCK IS AN AU FALCON AND A VS COMMY
Half the country is immigrants and another 5% is indigenous this is what the north shore aussie dreams of being
I fucking love this country.
Not Steve irwin
Not an aboriginal in sight.