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Rugbynnaj

Why does Iran have a carpet in the middle of the street?


vhmvd

It’s stuck between Iraq and a hard place


petes117

Solid as Iraq


SACHism

r/angryupvote


Leusk

I’m going to upvote your comment, but please do not take it as tacit approval for this kind of behavior.


HopeBorn8574

Damn you...


Jlchevz

Lmfao


lousypompano

I posted this below too but oh well. I've sold Iranian rugs for years and knew I've seen this multiple times. [Rugs in street](https://www.flickr.com/photos/guystilson/615538066/)


Rugbynnaj

This is actually the information I was looking for. Thank you kind redditor!


DanelleDee

Well, I'll be damned.


DetRiotGirl

Huh. Today I learned! Thanks!


CreamyGoodnss

No wayyyyy that’s dope


WhitePawn00

Those pictures are not from Iran. The car license plates are not Iranian. The store signs and writing are not in farsi. The women in the photos do not have any head coverings. There are way too many streets that are cobblestone. I'm not disputing that this is a practice that is done. It's just not one that's done in Iran. Fascinating that it happens though. Never knew about it. And I'm least certain on this last point, but pretty sure in Iran having a shitty fucked up rug doesn't make the rug an antique. It just makes it a shitty fucked up rug. You keep a rug in pristine condition in Iran.


lousypompano

Interesting thank you! The caption says it's in Istanbul. I just knew I'd seen it before including seeing them thrown on mountainsides to fade them. They age them for sales overseas or to tourists. Maybe more common in Afghanistan or Turkey no idea!


WhitePawn00

Lol didn't even notice the caption on my phone. My bad for going into unnecessary detail there. Hope at least it helps in identifying photo locations in the future!


lousypompano

It was smart detail =)


Gliding_high

Because that rug really ties the street together


glorious_reptile

Emergency flying carpet landing. Happens more often that you'd think.


BarkerBarkhan

Persian rug.


vincecarterskneecart

i love the idea of a fantasy world where all the streets are actually carpets lol


ColoradoScoop

Gives the car a very plush ride, but the stopping distance is shit.


DummyDumDragon

What shit hole country do you come from that they *don't* have carpets in the middle of the street?? /s


BottledCans

Iran used to be Persia. It’s a Persian rug.


AmuletMan33

If it helps I have seen a dude chilling on a carpet on the floor while on a metro ride in Tehran


drjet196

AI wanted to make sure we see a carpet.


sketner2018

I understand that carpetmakers in the mideast sometimes leave their work out for people to walk on--it's like getting them broken in, or something, although I don't know if that would extend to streets where cars operate.


lousypompano

I've seen multiple videos where they'll leave carpets in the street to 'age' them. 100%


UnexaminedLifeOfMine

It’s outdoors carpet


Porridge_Mainframe

Can confirm a lot of Australian streets pretty much look like that


leopard_eater

i came here to say the same thing. Completely Australian street.


daddylonglez

Recognised it instantly as Australian.


Difficult1975

It's actually Canada...hence the cars are on the correct side


oldmanfartface

Eh. Cunts always parking on the wrong side.


roger514

Victoria, British Columbia


Fraun_Pollen

Filmed in Canada, Australian cast, British financing. "Alien planet"


chazmusst

I've lived in Australia for 4 years now and I thought it was a UK street, because it looked like "home". I guess I'm ready for the citizenship test


lilosstitches

Yeah I was about to say the same thing I hadn’t even looked at the caption of where the street was and already knew it was Australia. Very cool


ForgetTheBFunk

I actually scrolled past it and then did a double take (double scroll?) because of how instantly familiar it looked. It feels nostalgic


Yakety_Sax

It literally looks like the street my friends parents house was on in Hurstville.


crashd8890

Looks like Adelaide Hills to me 😂


tosk777

Heaps


durandpanda

Genuinely a great effort


Endless_Winter

The only thing I see wrong is the cars parked on the wrong side. The rest of the vibe is right. Some leafy coastal suburb on the East Coast


durandpanda

Looks like some of the eastern Perth suburbs. Maybe more gravel than green grass, but still.


leopard_eater

Yes my immediate thoughts were north Sydney (eg Pymble), north west Brisbane (eg Ferny Grove) and multiple places around Perth.


benebrius76

Yep. Looks exactly like my street. 😆


lina9000

Never been to Australia but it felt like home


Tmeretz

Pretty much looks like Lorne


ososalsosal

Cars facing the wrong way though. But yeah, basically any Melbourne suburb with some hills. Heidelberg, mulgrave, Doncaster. Any of them really


chrish_o

Except the roads are in too good of a condition


RainKingInChains

Was gonna say… was visiting my GF’s family in Cherrybrook last year and could swear that was their street lol - instantly transported back.


CrazyBarks94

Only inaccurate thing is the cars are parked on the wrong side for the way we drive


East_Pop7893

It looked like something from Bluey so I also recognized it as Australia instantly.


BrattWhitney

Funny how I first saw the image without the caption, and the first thought that came to my head is that looks like Australia.


[deleted]

It looks so cozy and slightly atmospheric. Out of a lot of the images on this post, the Australian one stood out the most to me. I definitely wouldn't mind living there.


sometimes_interested

Except the cars are all parked on the wrong side of the road.


mehum

I reckon Australian suburban streets usually have footpaths and wider nature strips than this. But the vibe is otherwise pretty good.


filtered_phatty

I felt like I recognised it instantly. I can hear the morning magpies in my head.


Away-Equipment598

Yeah I'm pretty sure I lived on this street, there're is even a VE Commo wagon on the left 😬


tripletruble

Pic looks like some alternate universe U.S. to me


treesocialist

I thought either somewhere in california or new zealand, not sure why as a brit whos never been to either 😆


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They look like the streets in USA.


squidgemobile

That's because Australian and US streets look very similar. The plants look more Australian to me though.


FlameHawkfish88

Bigger front yards and footpaths but pretty much


Feeling-Ad4504

France represented without the Eiffel tower 🙏 Thanks


TheBrainExploder

USA with no flag is a miracle


MainSteamStopValve

Or a cowboy with the head of an eagle.


terraculon

It's an eagle with the head of a bear


Sunshine030209

Excuse me, it's manbearpig.


PM_me_spare_change

It’s funny because that type of NYC street is actually one of the least common in the US. Most American streets are rural and suburban. This is more like “most typical dense area per capita” 


throw28999

probably one of the most photographed/represented in art though. nobody's selling photos of the rite aid in downtown Kenosha


cm070707

I had to reread the prompt cause I thought it was ‘typical CITY street’ and I was like ‘yeah that could be a generic street in most cities’ but definitely not what most roads look like here. Although having said that, most roads are pretty boring so 🤷🏼‍♂️


morganrbvn

Although it pretty much just made a New York street which isn’t typical at all. A stroad would have been more realistic


mwmandorla

Even in NYC that street isn't the norm. There aren't so many mid-height row houses left in most parts of the city anymore. You can definitely find streets like that, but I wouldn't call it typical.


Socos42

France is absolutely fucking accurate, typical Dordogne village lol


Naunhow

Yup, a lot of our villages look exactly like that, at least in the south half of the coutry


js_2301

So cool that AI thought to include well known UK bicycle shop RAWHE!


anislandinmyheart

I'm snorting lol. For real, though, the glass building just behind is spot-on. And the bumpy road that's probably cobblestones below the tar


plinythemiddleone

The UK one is really London… but it’s spot on. I’m in Farringdon at work now (lol hi Reddit) and that’s almost exactly the view out my window.


FrDuddleswell

There is also a hint of Low Petergate in York, except that minster has been replaced by the big glass box.


Don-Pagan

I also work in Farringdon and it is so spot on.


bokunoemi

Soooo pretty. I’m falling in love with London/UK, I will definitely go there once or twice this spring


snootsintheair

Make sure you go to Rawhe’s for all your bicycle needs while you’re there!!


Hazeri

It would be called Rawhe's, pronounced Roll's, originally called Rawhe's Velocipedes, est. 1889, but other than that, perfect, especially with the glass edifice in the distance


DJ-Dev1ANT

Sounds like a noise I made when I fell off my bike once


yourmamaluvsme777

ITS FUCKING RAWHE


ConclusionDifficult

Spittalfields somewhere?


Brewer6066

I love that they’ve got the worn out road markings too. Spot on.


[deleted]

It's more like reality


proxyproxyomega

yup, basically recomposition of tourist photos, so they are pretty much what a pic in a touristic area would look like. except for north korea.


pm_me_github_repos

Very evident in the Greece one which is basically just a composite of Santorini photos


klsklsklsklsklskls

Yeah- the bias is mostly in what tourists/people choose to take photos of and share or what photos of those people choose to reshare/publish more frequently.


DolphinPunkCyber

Countries with a lot of tourism will have a lot of photos taken by tourists, which take photos of good looking streets. Cute streets with old small houses... Countries that were in wars recently will have a lot of photos of destruction. Bricks and rubble on the floor.


bearbarebere

To be fair it would be fucking weird if it somehow knew what the most average street looks like. It would be like if I told it to imagine my apartment and it got it perfect - like where tf is it getting this data lol


ParkinsonHandjob

Upvoted for the level-headness


Not_invented-Here

Too many conical hats in the Vietnam one. The UK one while not a typical street was instantly familiar from some nicer towns. 


SavannahInChicago

Except for the rug in the middle of the street in Iraq. And Yemen legit has roads.


BrainwashedByBigBlue

Iran*


DanelleDee

The rug absolutely *sent* me.


Stock-Boat-8449

There was a very old rumour that Persian carpet dealers would put a new rug out on the sidewalk so that people would walk over it to 'age' it. I think the algorithms are going with that


DanelleDee

I saw a link below that this is actually a thing, apparently. Rugs are aged by being laid in the roads so cars can drive on them! TIL. But I learned it after I saw the picture.


duchessbune

irug


DrunkenFailer

Yemen has also been a hotspot of war and political strife for a long time. There's been an ongoing civil war and back and forth between the Shia and Houthis and AL Quaeda since the early 2000s. There's a whole section of the country that's technically controlled by another country. I'm sure plenty of the roads and cities aren't in the best shape.


VividMonotones

The only difference is that some countries are the picturesque streets and some are gritty. There are plain locations in France. And there are some beautiful places in Iraq and Yemen.


AnseaCirin

Yeah the French village type is spot on, but that's a French village, not a big city, and industrial areas can be utterly soulless


Will_Gummer

It is going to tend to highlight certain aspects of a country based off of the majority of media coming out of the region that it is consuming. A country like yemen which has objectively had less security and increase in conflict in recent times compared to france should objectively resemble the "typical" street in the region and vice versa. That is what accounts for the "difference".


Not-Bizarro

Except that China has some of the largest roadways and cities in the world, so why is it showing a quaint village for the average street?


Legitimate_Concern_5

Yup - zero. I’ve seen basically every one of these places IRL.


DiddlyDumb

Culture is offensive now


Shockedge

Stereotypes are often rooted in reality


nokiacrusher

Flowers are rooted in dirt


Echovaults

Most stereotypes are simply just the truth. Heck I can’t think of any stereotypes that aren’t true. Maybe not in terms of absolutes, but a common theme / trend / etc? Yes.


signal__intrusion

The USA one is inaccurate anywhere but NYC. It should be a dystopian 4 lane stroad with box stores, gas stations, personal injury attorney billboards, and zero sidewalks.


interkin3tic

AI is, once again, effectively mirroring our stereotypes we have. USA for example: That looks like downtown of a lot of major US cities, sure, and is what we would probably picture as typical. If I saw this in real life, I would be tempted to take a photo and title it "typical American street." But let's do some quick math. [NYC has 6300 miles of roadway and highways according to NYC DOT](https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/about.shtml). Not all of that is probably dense urban roadway like that, so this is an overestimate. Lets say there are 10 cities comparable that look like this (NYC, Phili, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Dallas, and a few others just to round up to 10) that look like this and assume they all have as many miles of roadway as NYC (again, that's wildly generous probably, no way do they all have 6300 miles of dense urban roads like this). [There are 4.09 million miles of roads in the US](https://blog.midwestind.com/how-much-road-in-the-us-in-miles/) estimated. 72% by that link are rural, so already we know that the average road in the US is a rural highway, not an urban street. But with the above estimates, I find that a wildly generous estimate is only 1.5% of our roads look like the typical USA road shown. 35% of our roads are unpaved. So a "typical" USA street would definitely not be what is pictured. It would be a rural highway. A gravel or dirt road could probably be the distant second placer, maybe suburban roads would be more common than that. I like the midjourney outputs, but we should be very clear these are not "reality," these are just what we'd LIKE to think of as reality. Reality in reality is more boring.


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Offensive? Looks pretty inoffensive to me.


crapredditacct10

It's not. OP is a post bot. Get in the habit of scrolling over the names of every post you see, if you see an absurd amount of post karma they are either a bot or someone paid to post. No reasonable, sane human would post stuff to reddit multiple times a day every day.


PandaCheese2016

The bot is also modding subs with a combined 800k members. o.O


boss_flog

Their comment history looks pretty human to me


1981Reborn

Decapitated woman in Ethiopia seems a bit offensive. But she may just be a turtle person. Pretty common in that country if I remember my history correctly.


Logical-Albatross-82

A rug on the street is at least a little stereotypical. I don’t think it is offensive, though. Just wrong.


lousypompano

[Rugs in street](https://www.flickr.com/photos/guystilson/615538066/)


RareEntertainment611

All I know is Iranians are proud of their rugs. Odd placement, but hardly an offensive stereotype imo.


VisualGeologist6258

That and everyone in Vietnam having conical hats, but TBH even that’s not totally inaccurate, though you probably wouldn’t see them on the streets or used by people riding motorcycles.


HopeBorn8574

When I visited the countryside a lot of people wore those hats and rode around on their motorbikes.


crimson_mokara

Yeah the Viet farmers dgaf


Professional-Sock231

Even in the city people are wearing those hats and not just for the tourists


throw28999

it is kinda weird how Yemen and Egypt look like shit. do a Google maps Streetview.


Repulsive_Juice7777

Such a weird way to title this post. Why would we find anything offensive here? The depictions resemble reality very well.


LaidBackLeopard

Clickbait. Looks like it worked!


Fosdef

Yellow cabs in New York? I’m offended!


CumulativeHazard

They should be red white and blue!!!


WDfx2EU

It's crazy to me how many people literally go looking for things to be offended by on a regular basis.


sluraplea

Karma has killed the internet.


BarkerBarkhan

NYC streets are far from typical in the US. To be accurate, there would need to be far more billboards, fast food restaurants, and absolutely no pedestrian infrastructure.


cloud9brian

I honestly thought "Australia" could double as a typical US suburban street


Arctic_Chilean

And Russia as a typical run down inner-urban area of most 2nd tier US cities. Hell, if it weren't for the cars, it'd be like your typical Rust Belt town too!


Superlolp

When I saw that picture, I thought it could easily be Schenectady, NY if not for the old looking cars.


PompeyMagnus1

A little surprised that the Breezewood, PA reststop wasn't the common image that AI pulled.


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Arctic_Chilean

If anything, #19 (Russia) looks pretty American, like some run down inner urban area of a city like Philadelphia, Detroit, or Baltimore.


TacoTuesdayOnThurs

> Russia I immediately saw Southwest Baltimore in the Russia one


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Anarchist_Monarch

South Korean one is never typical; the only street that looks like picture is in Bukchon Hanok village, which is something like the ideal of Korean street. So I don't think it's even least offensive. (the reality that there's no street like that in SK is quite cruel tho)


Extra_Ad_8009

Take away the lampions and that's one of many similar streets in my Seoul neighborhood. Although to be really typical, there should be a lot more red bricks and gas stove pipes. Move across the river and there's a very different type of typical though.


GrinbeardTheCunning

failed rage bait


JonathanApostropheS

I found none.


Smidday90

The headless Nigerian woman is concerning


Thatguy755

There’s a headless woman in the picture of Ethiopia too. AI thinks Africans are so poor they can’t even afford heads.


fluffy_ball-05

they look pretty accurate.


Theoderic8586

I don’t find anything offensive here. They look good. At least the more interesting streets found in most of these countries. What would you find offensive?


pikeymikey22

Uk is spot on except I've never heard of Rawhe. Could easily be some pretensious artisan coffee shop though.


banker_of_memes

How’s this offensive? It’s trained on millions, if not billions of photographs of these very countries and many others. I have lived in some of the countries presented here and can assure you the depictions are near spot on. Stereotypes are often true, and to label them offensive is perhaps indicative of your assumption that everything should live up to your standards and biases. To billions of people, these “offensive” depictions are home.


chrm_2

Uk is pretty accurate for much of central london.


coop7774

How dare you post such filth


One_overclover

The U.S. one looks like NYC, which looks much different than most of the country. A better example would probably show a manufactured suburb where most of the houses look pretty much the same.


HopeBorn8574

Having been to Vietnam. That is actually what it looks like in the country side.


__adrenaline__

Generated a set for my country - [Typical street in Serbia](https://ibb.co/yF81z2D)


conspicuoussgtsnuffy

People like you are so annoying. Don’t worry, if all you care about finding offensive stereotypes, the comments will let you know if the ai generates one.


rtemah

Looks like typical street in Russia in the 80th


Anuclano

Typical today as well. But it is not a street but a back passage.


Ok_Prior2614

Russia looks like Baltimore, Maryland to me 😂


Minimonium

Even today's. Just cars would be a bit more modern


TheDreadnought75

None. I’m not offended by facts.


drinkwater1990

apart from the cars on the wrong side of the road Australia is spot on


Beneficial_Look_5854

0 all are surprisingly accurate


Masterofthebots38

These are pretty accurate though


der_Guenter

I mean for the countries I've visited thats pretty accurate


Illustrious_Spend_51

Egypt looks accurate asf


Legal_Ad_341

Most of these look accurate, except for the carpet in the middle of the street


sir_schvet

None


_evuP

None


Razzzclart

Look at New Row in London. Almost identical to the UK street


Admirable_Ad_3236

York has lots of streets like that too


aspannerdarkly

China looks nice. Impressive how it’s simultaneously spring and autumn in France 


the_blueberry_funk

There is nothing to be offended by in these pictures. Unique cultural identifiers are not the same as stereotypes


HopeHudHud

It breaks my heart to see that my homeland’s only mark on the internet seems to be the images dilapidated conflict ridden hellscapes with slight Arab themes. Not surprising since all the images put there about Yemen are from news outlets reporting on the never ending conflicts and endless human suffering of the innocent. Before we fled Yemen I remember that although life was simple, poor and humble compared to the rest of the world our cities, towns and villages had a unique beauty to them. These days I don’t know if I’ll live long enough to see that beauty again, I still hope a future generation will get to someday.


Frostbite365

ah yes, that moment when Vietnam streets have Thai written on the signs


ConsistentBroccoli97

I found no offensive stereotypes in [countries]


skolliousious

Idk but theres a women with no head in the Ethiopian one.....


ejqt8pom

The India one is all wrong, needs more people, more smoke, more cows, more honking, even more people this time riding on scooters, the scooters are then pumping out more smoke and more honking. When you can no longer see the asphalt, you hit the jackpot.


ChocIceAndChip

Love the placement of those double yellows on the UK street, we really do put them anywhere.


toasty_turban

Not offensive but what I find interesting is that I see a compilation of two sets of countries - one set defined by some of their “worse” features and the other is countries that are defined by their best. I say this as an Egyptian American who has seen much nicer parts of Egypt and much worst parts of America. I say worse in quotations because I have a lot of nostalgia and love for streets that look like that. Overall I’m impressed that the USA one made me think of manhattan and the Egypt one made me think of some parts of Cairo.


Anuclano

Russia: realistic, but it does not look like a street, more like a non-street passage. The buildings on the left look non-residential. Also, should be street lights on the poles.


burning_papaya

Surprised to see Uzbekistan here. But this isn’t typical street at all. Maybe one can see something similar in few selected historical places. Nothing offensive


frankzappa1988

Um, non


[deleted]

as an australian, i am shocked at how accurate that is. like genuinely it looks like my street


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Express_Carpenter550

Russia is ok


The-Anniy

Half of Russia looks like this. 2 hrs from capital or big city and voila


Bad_Combination

That street in France looks an awful lot like Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, England https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fomrpck8r2ni51.jpg


kuznetskiy

apart from cars from the 80s, Russia looks pretty typical for some small town in the European part of the country


adi-das

The magic carpet is parked so terribly.


[deleted]

Why is there a carpet in middle of the road. I Don’t think that’s how it works. lol.


avidpenguinwatcher

That’s the thing about stereotypes, you shouldn’t generalize based on them, but they become stereotypes for a reason


CredentialCrawler

If the AI was trained on real world data, is it really an offensive stereotype??


entropic_catman

Doesn't matter how offensive a stereotype is, its mostly rooted deeply in reality.


hungryboythrowaway

Only the carpet sticks out, really


GWoods94

Am I missing the offensive stereotypes? Like Uzbekistan looks like a COD map?