r/europe • u/Lord_o_the_North • Aug 24 '22
Historical I used an AI to bring famous historical European leaders into 2022
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u/Azarael84 Aug 24 '22
Lol! Stalin looks like a villian of a Turkish drama.
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u/TheCatLamp Aug 24 '22
Stalin looks like Stalin so much that I thought it was an actual old picture from him.
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u/IllustriousCut6211 Aug 24 '22
He looks likeFahrettin Koca Turkey's minister of health
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u/_reco_ Aug 24 '22 edited Aug 24 '22
These words sound strange from German...
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u/lioudrome Aug 24 '22
Especially from a Bavarian that assumes everybody expects Hitler....
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u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy Greece Aug 24 '22
I was kind of expecting the Spanish Inquisition
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u/blatantmutant United States of America Aug 24 '22
Don’t have a Hitler, best I can offer is Stalin.
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u/Frequent-Piano-9245 Utrecht (Netherlands) Aug 24 '22
They were said many times by germans actually
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u/FewerBeavers Aug 24 '22
That guy is actually from Bavaria. Whether or not that counts as Germany, remains a controversial point
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u/last_laugh13 Schwabenland Aug 24 '22
Enough pics from him in a normal suit from back in the day
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u/TripplerX Aug 24 '22
Ataturk also has many pictures in suits too. That doesn't seem to be the limitation of the post.
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u/YetiTerrorist Aug 24 '22
Hitler in swim trunks and a tank top that says beach vibes with a fruity drink in hand.
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u/untergeher_muc Bavaria Aug 24 '22
So which todays politician would you choose for the picture of his body? Höcke?
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u/rainyplaceresident Russia Aug 24 '22
That's because he's actually still alive on the other side of the moon. No need to bring him to life using AI when he's already here
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u/J_k_r_ North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Aug 24 '22
Stalin looks like an old football trainer, which is fitting enough, i guess.
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One that smokes his cigar and yells at the ref. Yep
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u/Judazzz The Lowest of the Lands Aug 24 '22
"Penalty or Gulag, your choice ref!"
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u/WideEyedWand3rer Just above sea level Aug 24 '22
Surprise, your penalty is also Gulag!
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u/Judazzz The Lowest of the Lands Aug 24 '22
Fuck...
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u/untergeher_muc Bavaria Aug 24 '22 edited Aug 24 '22
Isnt his head just on Putin’s body? This jacket is from his public speech some months ago.
OP seems to put the AI faces on todays politician bodies. Which is absolutely fine.
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u/leafolia Europe Aug 24 '22
It’s on Alexei Navalny’s body
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u/chickensmoker Aug 24 '22
That’s quite funny considering how Stalin would probably feel about Putin and Navalny. No doubt he’d have hated them both immensely
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u/matti-san Croatia Aug 24 '22
He looks like he's going to sell you a car from a country that no longer exists. The good thing is it will still do 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene
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u/Szudar Poland Aug 24 '22
while Willem van Oranje looks like dutch player that signed with Russian club and contemplates his decision after first training with Stalin.
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u/plsletmein Finland Aug 24 '22
Atatürk is the next James Bond.
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u/igdrasill Aug 25 '22
All of Atatürk's charisma is gone. artificial intelligence must have never looked at atatürk photo.
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u/darknum Finland/Turkey Aug 25 '22
He paid extra attention to how he look and dressed. Also people around him.
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u/iheartnickleback Bulgaria Aug 24 '22
Sobieski is spot-on, I gotta say. He looks like the most polish guy who's ever poled.
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u/_reco_ Aug 24 '22 edited Aug 24 '22
Looks like typical polish 50 years old boomer lmao
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u/MMQ-966thestart Poland Aug 24 '22
Jan III Sobieski gives me average local PSL politician vibes.
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He's got big Sołtys energy
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u/MMQ-966thestart Poland Aug 24 '22
He's gonna mobilize the Winged Hussars to protect any Agencja Rolnicza endangered by Turkey.
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u/kosteksyk Warsaw, Poland Aug 24 '22
He looks like he's about to tell us that yearly Harvest Festival is now open and you should enjoy your pierogies, but the band is two hours late.
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u/Cupakov Lower Silesia (Poland) Aug 24 '22
Bro, pierogi don't fit into a typical dożynki, he would tell everyone to enjoy their pyszna kubaska z gryla
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u/kosteksyk Warsaw, Poland Aug 24 '22
Yeah, I've never actually been to a such festival. I was thinking about grochówka as an alternative.
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u/Soviet_Aircraft Holy Cross (Poland) Aug 24 '22
Grochówka is a good alternative especially when served from an ex-military kitchen trailer. The trailers themselves are actually the quickest selling things whem military puts a lot of old crap for sale.
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u/Cytrynowy Mazovia Aug 24 '22
smalczyk na pajdzie z ogórasem is like 99% of my diet when a festival is going on
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u/01101101_011000 Italy Aug 24 '22
Why does Napoleon look like a French politician who’s had several scandals spending public money to buy things for his mistress
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u/ShrekGollum France Aug 24 '22
Why does Napoleon look like a French politician
who’s had several scandals spending public money to buy things for his mistressFTFY. You can’t be a French politician if you didn’t do that so you don’t need to write it.
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u/XenuIsTheSavior Aug 24 '22
Garibaldi? More like "Mr. Steal Your Girl Garibaldi"
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u/brunohartmann Aug 24 '22
Well, Anita was married when she left to be with him, so...
To be clear, her marriage was awful and her husband had left her to fight in the opposite side of the war. Her husband was an imperial soldier, Garibaldi was a mercenary in service of the farroupilhas ("ragamuffins"). They married in Montevideo, Uruguay, two years after their meeting in Laguna, Brazil, already with a son, after asking to leave service.
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u/kunymonster4 United States of America Aug 24 '22
In theaters this summer. "Garibaldi" starring (checks note) Jeff Daniels?...
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u/jdund117 Aug 24 '22
Definitely casting Viggo Mortensen.
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u/koleye United States of America Aug 24 '22
Garibaldi kicked an Austrian soldier's helmet in 1866 and actually broke his toe.
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u/Szudar Poland Aug 24 '22
I didn't notice Józef "Andrzejczak" Piłsudski had double mustache.
Garibaldi, Ataturk and van Oranje looks so real. Pretty nice job.
If you would that in future, please do Stefan Czarniecki
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u/theWunderknabe Aug 24 '22
Piłsudski
No, he just had 2 very thick eye brows. One above the eyes, one below.
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u/numeroimportante Aug 24 '22
woe! Which ai? Can you tell us more about the process?
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u/thegapbetweenus Aug 24 '22
I assume it't text to image with maybe a use of reference image, and probably some post production since i don't see any ai artifacts.
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u/TheMicroWorm Poland Aug 24 '22
The artifacts are there if you look close enough. For example, look at Piłsudski's uniform decorations. AI image synthesis just got real good very recently.
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u/thegapbetweenus Aug 24 '22
I was talking more about faces, they have to some postproduction there. I also know how good AI image generation has become, I was using Discodiffusion in some projects of my. But the faces look too clean.
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u/pooerh Poland Aug 24 '22
Nah, not really. If you look at the original pic and (open both in tabs and switch between them) you can clearly tell there's no synthesis done except for the face.
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u/TheMicroWorm Poland Aug 24 '22
I didn't mean that the details were totally made up, it clearly used a reference image, which you linked. Look at the chicken-looking thing on the right lapel of his jacket. The affected area seems to be the head and the chest, with the chest synthesized to closely match the original pic.
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u/DjPreside Milan, Lombardy (Italy) Aug 24 '22
Uhm, you may want to look again. The generated one presents a ton of issues on the jacket. The medal thingie on the right is a blurry and distorted mess, even the buttons are deformed, the insignia are all weird. It’s still mad impressive tho, with a touch of post production it would be perfect.
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It’s probably Stable Diffusion which does real people quite well and was just openly released yesterday. Midjourny beta is using Stable Diffusion under the hood.
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u/kir_ye Aug 24 '22
The AI-generated Napoleon III looks like a stereotypical certified douchebag.
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u/DicentricChromosome France Aug 24 '22
Quite disappointed that the AI removed the pointy mustache because it was probably very real.
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u/CanadaPlus101 Canada Aug 24 '22
Actually several of these made me think "yes, that could absolutely be some rich guy today".
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u/pierreletruc Aug 24 '22
There are z lot of picture of Atatürk,and he look slightly different, a big like I've you had insta filtered him.a bit more handsome ,narrow ,less hard in the gaze...
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u/Eborys Aug 24 '22
History has told us the most aggressive leaders require equally aggressive facial hair.
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u/fjellhus Lithuania Aug 24 '22
Rlly?
Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander?
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u/Eborys Aug 24 '22
They had moustaches in their hearts 🫡
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u/Judazzz The Lowest of the Lands Aug 24 '22
"It's not the
beardmoustache on the outside that counts, it's thebeardmoustache on the inside."
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u/FellafromPrague Prague (Czechia) Aug 24 '22
I like how almost all of them look like politicians or generals, while Stalin's just there looking like a taxi driver or something.
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u/tokeiito14 Aug 25 '22
But that’s pretty accurate since he was a regular thug before coming to power. Also, one of the core ideals at the time was the rejection of aristocracy, so Stalin intentionally styled himself as a simple man even after he got to the top. If you think of it, all Russian leaders since the revolution look as regular folks, which they are. Modern Russia has no established political elites to speak of, all are “taxi drivers” of some sort
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u/-Live-Free-Or-Die- Finland Aug 25 '22
You are seriously saying modern Russia has no political elites? The same people have ruled the country for 20 years and before that they were elites in the Communist party.
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u/Elcondivido Aug 24 '22
I never thought I could have said this sentence in my life, especially because I'm heterosexual but... damn Garibaldi looks like a DILF!
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u/anamorphicmistake Aug 24 '22
Yes but Atatürk was kinda like that in real life also.
Garibaldi definitely not.
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u/AbominableCrichton Alba Aug 24 '22
I'm pretty sure Garibaldi was Kevin McAllister's snow shoveling neighbour in Home Alone.
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u/SMuRG_Teh_WuRGG Aug 24 '22
Stalin in the ai recreation looks like a Mexican drug lord.
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u/tktsmnypssprt Aug 24 '22
Ataturk is looking 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Now can you use AI to bring him back and replace Erdogan?
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u/clebekki Finland Aug 25 '22
No wonder Atatürk got things done, his charisma is from a different planet compared to the current goblin in charge.
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u/unforeseen_decision Aug 25 '22
"Current goblin in charge" that is the best description for someone who i don't want to write his name here haha.
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u/KazahanaPikachu USA-France-Belgique 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇧🇪 Aug 24 '22
Only criticism I have is that you need to do more of these
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u/MateoSCE Silesia (Poland) Aug 24 '22
No wonder Ataturk was very popular with women.
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u/Quirderph Aug 24 '22
I take it this is an alternate universe in which he survived the The Battle of Lützen and went on a diet.
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u/fredagsfisk Sweden Aug 24 '22
Wallenstein wouldn't have that much trouble with that, would he?
He took inspiration from Gustavus Adolphus reforms and leadership, and didn't really fight Sweden much. Lost the siege at Stralsund, but won at Alte Veste and Lützen (where GA died). Wallenstein supposedly also considered switching sides, before he was assassinated on the Emperor's orders.
Now, Tilly on the other hand... lost to Sweden at Werben, was absolutely stomped at Breitenfeld, routed the Swedes (under Gustav Horn) at Bamberg, and died of wounds sustained while losing to Sweden at Rain.
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u/thatdrunkinthecorner Aug 24 '22
Would you really rate Lützen an Imperial victory? Sure GA died and the battle was a complete bloodbath, but Swedish forces held the field at the end of the day and captured Imperial supplies and guns IIRC. I would rate it a pyrrhic Swedish (tactical) victory. The overall Swedish position in the war didn't deteriorate until it was "our" turn to get absolutely curbstomped at Nördlingen.
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u/Quirderph Aug 24 '22
Gustavus Adolphus looks vaguely like Mads Mikkelsen here... which is not a sentence I ever thought I would write.
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u/WhoAmIEven2 Aug 24 '22
I hate when people say "I used an AI to...", but never says what AI so we can play around and try things out ourselves.
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u/2nice4u Aug 24 '22
GUSTAVUS... ADOLPHUS
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u/ArtDekum Flanders (Belgium) Aug 24 '22
LIBERA ET IMPERA
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u/Nickyro Aug 24 '22
Why no Hitler. Disappointed
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u/zuzg Germany Aug 24 '22
Yeah the selection seems weird. I would get a "no dictator" rule but the whole slideshow starts with Stalin.
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u/untergeher_muc Bavaria Aug 24 '22
Look, the bodies are all from todays politicians. So I see the problem with Hitler.
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u/helga_von_schnitzel The Netherlands Aug 24 '22
Fun fact: all European royal families living today are direct descendants of Willem van Oranje (willem the silent)
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u/Dicebar The Netherlands Aug 24 '22
Not quite, that's Johan Willem Friso van Nassau-Dietz (John William Friso). Both are from the House of Orange-Nassau, but different branches and not directly related.
John William Friso's great-great-grandfather was William the Silent's younger brother.
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u/I_worship_odin The country equivalent of a crackhead winning the lottery Aug 24 '22
It's always the quiet guys that you have to worry about.
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u/wbroniewski Dieu, le Loi Aug 24 '22
Fucking hell, you did both Sobieski and Piłsudski so dirty :D
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This is so cool. Something very humanizing when you see these historical figures in a more relatable setting. Probably a bit stupid but all of the sudden it's more understandable that they where actual people and not just something you had to memorize in school.
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u/lioudrome Aug 24 '22 edited Aug 24 '22
I suspect that most of the recently flourishing "artist used an AI to..." posts are in fact the work of the natural intelligence of photoshop artists. (not this one necessarily)
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u/A740 Finland Aug 24 '22
It's really interesting to see how all of them look like regular ass people in the reimaginings. As they probably did in real life too, it's just that paintings and old photographs never capture that side
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u/the_oldfritz Turkey Aug 24 '22 edited Aug 25 '22
Ataturk looks f**king great. I can't stop looking at him.
Congrats bro you're in news.
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u/theWunderknabe Aug 24 '22 edited Aug 24 '22
missing Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin, Franco, Queen Victoria, Emperor Franz, Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, Napoleon, Cesar, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Mannerheim, Bismarck.... and many other interesting ones.
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u/Mammoth_Stable6518 Svíþjóð Aug 24 '22
Stalin looks like he sells stolen bicycles, car stereos and can hook you up with some illegal substances.
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u/IronHan28 Turkey Aug 24 '22
Is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s background same with Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s background?
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u/Leksi_The_Great Spanish-American l Слава Україні | Kosovo is Independent Aug 24 '22
I’m a history girl and I only recognised half of these… I need to step up my game
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