What do Basingstoke people look like according to AI?

There's no doubt that AI technology is creeping into our everyday lives, it can write essays, type out speeches and even create images of everything and anything. 

Film editor Duncan Thomsen recently experimented with the Midjourney software to generate images of what the 'average' person looked like from 13 different UK counties.

AI has notoriously found people quite hard to create convincingly, with many cases of people having far more fingers than usual or faces looking a bit 'off'.

Inspired by this, we wanted to know what it would create when asked to visualise people from Basingstoke.

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AI creations of Basingstoke people prove to be terrifying

Two people walk down a high street (Image: Canva 'Text to Image' AI))

The 'Text to Image' AI service on Canva was used to produce some of the images of what 'Basingstoke people' looked like.

From what was created, the AI seems to think people from the town are middle-aged or slightly older. 

Many of the images featured a busy high street, with many walking in groups but a lot of the faces were horrifically distorted.

The AI really struggled to recreate faces (Image: Canva 'Text to Image' AI))

The AI created one image of a trio wearing high-vis jackets - perhaps from the Royal Mail delivery office on Priestly Road? 

Additionally, the service DeepAI.org produced an image of a group of people in front of a building that was equally disturbing. 

Are these people in front of a charity shop? An estate agency? No idea. 

This is nothing but creepy (Image: deepai.org)

There's no doubt that this is the creepiest image of the lot. Again, AI has struggled to create our faces.

Conclusion?

AI is not quite ready to enter the photography world and we're going to be seeing these creepy faces in our nightmares for weeks.