My issue is that it appears to not be possible to explain what the AI is doing at all. If you could, you'd be able to actually control the output. And talking about how the model is trained is interesting but not an answer.

Of course there is a superimposing step, that just means it adds its layer on top of the photo you provide. That's all it means and that's literally what it is doing, that's all I tried to say, heh.

> If you pay attention to all the corgi examples, the sofa texture changes in each of them

Yes, exactly!

> This is far from a 'cool trick' and many of those images would take hours for a human to reproduce

OK, fair enough. I'll try to be more clear:

It is very cool and not a trick and the results are fantastic if you got out exactly what you wanted. Amazing time saver. And if not? Right now this is totally hit or miss.

It would also take hours for a human to reproduce a Vermeer and this no doubt has those in its training set and would style-transfer unto a corgi instantly. Certainly faster than Vermeer himself could do it.

But Vermeer could explain how he came up with the style, his techniques, choices, 'etc.

It reads like the advance here is that it will usually synthesize something that looks great but not always the thing that you want. With no recourse.