After overcoming some protest, I finally got into fascist territory, a grayish person complete with epaulets and a red armband w/ some swastika-like symbol. Also, more consistency around the flags and war-reminiscent paraphernalia in the background. This is maximum right-leaning. (12/...)

The next stages again involved some protest from ChatGPT. But anyway, there is more right-leaning to see. This guy (bearded again, to my surprise) holds a book that reads (w/ correct spelling) "The History of Conservative Thought". He seems to like all kinds of flags. (11/...)

Now I really like the direction this is taking. Surprisingly, both left- and right-leaning people lose their beards when they become more extreme. While leftist guys seems to become more androgynous at this point, this dude is bursting with muscles. I love that he wears the flag as his tie! (10/...)

Becoming more right-leaning produces a British person, which I guess makes sense at least from a certain perspective. The guy himself does not look older, but his purse does. (9/...)

But it did work out fine in the old thread, at least after some tweaking. Now this guy (again, a guy) is older and very serious. I especially like the background, which, even though the guy has a US flag pin, seems clearly wrong to a non-US person like me. The clock tower even seems European (8/...)

As I said, I was eager to see the right-leaning ones. I started a different thread first, but it turn out ChatGPT doesn't want to give me right-leaning people unless I have prompted left-leaning people first. Talk about imbalance, RIGHT? (7/...)

So, I was wrong. There is one more stage of left-leaning, which includes a sternly committed facial expression and a book with a bearded person on its cover. After this, all I get are errors. Here you have him, Mr. Maximum Left. (6/...)

Now, this is where ChatGPT begins to protest. This seems to confirm my horseshoe theory suspicion, and I am eager to try out the right-leaning folks. However, I don't want to give up just yet. (5/...)

Now this is where we venture into clear activist territory. However, I feel somewhat uneasy. How far left is this person? Couldn't he be from the other side of the spectrum as well? Does Dall-E have an internal horseshoe theory of the political spectrum? (4/...)

Now there seems to be some interesting consistency in the hairstyles: Is this the leftist hairdo? I also like the fact that they progressively seem to lose their beard (3/...)

I had to specify "politically left-leaning", because otherwise I would just get someone who looks to the left. The more left-leaning person now wears earrings and holds up a smartphone, which I think is nice touch. (2/...)

Fascinated by the increasingly "more professor" entities produced by Tomer Ullman, I wondered how ChatGPT/Dall-E would depict people of successively more left- or right-leaning political affiliation. Let's start with the left-leaning ones (1/...)

I'm proud to have co-presented with Susanne Johansson @prif.org and Andrea Prytula @dezim-institut.de on the critical intersection of evaluation, civic education, and digitalization. In our presentation, I focused on our pilot study on a new Digital Citizenship scale. (Photo: Ute Seitz @prif.org)

Exciting two days at the PrEval conference focused on evaluation in extremism prevention and civic education! I'm grateful for the chance to dive deep into these crucial topics with experts in the field. (Photo: Ute Seitz @prif.org)