Telling how "AI-like" an image is is done by seeing how well it completes a round-trip through the VAE. It will either match a known VAE well, or be an image t

Telling how "AI-like" an image is is done by seeing how well it completes a round-trip through the VAE. It will either match a known VAE well, or be an image that's altered enough (jpeg noise, photoshopping in post, etc) to not match the output of a VAE. And meanwhile the "loss system" for training AI idea is still hobbled by how the image generating AI systems are all using VAEs. At best, you've swapped one VAE for another. Just another new VAE to add to the list of VAEs to check.