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by batterseapower 1223 days ago
Related - here's a fun short sci-fi story about a savant ("the prompt whisperer") who is able to intuit the prompt that was used to generate things: https://interconnected.org/home/2022/08/03/whisperer
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Hee, cute, but predictable once the ... showed up. Honestly I think the ending was unnecessary; it destroys all subtlety.

Of course, this is not actually how latent space works. It's the AI's understanding of concepts, not the inherent nature of concepts; that's why every model has its own version of "latent space". Though the understanding of latent space in the story is internally consistent; given a superintelligent image generator, you could do prompt engineering like this.