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by _fullpint 2359 days ago
Much closer to the latter. I haven’t read this yet, but it sounds like an encoder model.
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Correct.

The machine here doesn’t even know that those are beetles (because nobody told it), it is “just” arranging pixels in a similar manner as the pixels from the source images. It does understand that each generated image must have “legs”, “eyes”, “shells”... and other features that it detected are common in the original images.