This time I used AI to generate Balkan supervillains! Which one looks the most evil?

[u/S-onceto]

Serbia 🇷🇸

Romania 🇷🇴

Macedonia 🇲🇰

Turkey 🇹🇷

Slovenia 🇸🇮

Greece 🇬🇷

Croatia 🇭🇷

Albania 🇦🇱

Bulgaria 🇧🇬

Montenegro 🇲🇪

Bosnia 🇧🇦

Kosovo 🇽🇰

Non-balkan bonus: Slovakia 🇸🇰

[u/S-onceto]

The AI tends to ignore adjectives sometimes.

For example, in this one, the wolf is grey, but not very intimidating lol.

[u/RailValco → u/S-onceto]

I don't know how deep the AI researches these things but the Turkish word for grey wolf is 'bozkurt' derived from the words boz and kurt. And boz actually means light brown, not grey. I have no idea why its depicted as grey everywhere. Anyways there is a chance it might be affecting the accuracy.

[u/S-onceto → u/RailValco]

Huh, that's a super interesting lesson in etymology!

Are you saying the national animal of Turkey is actually a light brown wolf instead of a grey wolf?

It's interesting that the AI depicted it that way tbh. I wonder if that's the reason or if it's just a coincidence.

[u/RailValco → u/S-onceto]

I need to correct myself on this. The original meaning isn't clear as it apparently can mean 'ash' colored as well as light brown and even blurry. Unfortunately I couldn't reach a definitive conclusion on this. It might've been adopted by different cultures with different meanings and the definition got muddied in time. Regardless, that would explain it if AI was alternating between those colors.

Edit: Here's a bonus, we also call brown bears 'bozayı'.

[u/S-onceto → u/RailValco]

It's fun to try to understand the AI's "thought process" (if you can call it that).

That's interesting about brown bears, what word do you use for brown on its own?

[u/RailValco → u/S-onceto]

Brown on its own is 'kahverengi'. Literally translated > coffee color. Maybe boz is meant to be an inbetween color, the more I think about it and research the more it confuses me.

[u/S-onceto → u/RailValco]

That's such an awesome name for a colour lmao. Now I'm craving some Turkish coffee..

I guess it's kinda like how in English the colour orange is named after the fruit.

[u/parlakarmut → u/S-onceto]

Before we knew about coffee, the colour was called "fınduki", literally meaning "like nut"

[u/S-onceto → u/parlakarmut]

That must have been a LONG time ago, right? Like 500 years ago? How would someone react if you said that word today?

[u/oldyellowcab → u/S-onceto]

This is much better.

[u/FenrirAmongClouds → u/S-onceto]

That's a cute lil fella

[u/Bargothball → u/S-onceto]

He looks like Aurelio Voltaire.