The model works on compressed data. That's all it is. Sure, it could output a picture from its training set on decompression, but only if you feed that same pic

The model works on compressed data. That's all it is. Sure, it could output a picture from its training set on decompression, but only if you feed that same picture into the compressor. In which case what are you doing, exactly? Normally you feed it a text prompt instead, which won't compress to the same thing.