[the8472]

> it’s abundantly clear that these are just simple stitches of the training toons.

That's not how GANs work in general. With a limited training set the end result may appear as if they were stitched together samples, but that's not what happens under the hood.

Interpolation videos make it obvious that it encodes visual concepts, can freely manipulate them and even crank up parameters beyond anything found in the training set, thus giving exaggerated results.

[Closi]

Agreed, but I also agree with OP - as a Disney fan I can pretty easily identify some of the character parts this AI has taken them from.

One of them on mine is just Helen from the incredibles head with Elsas face. I couldn’t design a cartoon character from scratch, but I could definitely make a ‘new’ cartoon character if I’m allowed to take Homer Simpson’s head and paste Goofys face on top.