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Yes, the evidence is preliminary and not extensive. Yes, generative models can be tricky (to say the least). No one's claiming otherwise.

Visual evidence is important for generative image tasks, given that we can't measure any of these DNN generators against a "true" statistical model that generates the data.

For a DNN to be able to generate more realistic transformations of generated images from low-dimensional representations, it must learn higher quality representations... or are you saying otherwise?