Sampling as Creativity

Here's the uncomfortable secret of AI art: the model doesn't 'decide' anything. Generation is sampling — pick a random point in the learned space, decode it, done.

Every DALL-E image, every Midjourney portrait, every face on thispersondoesnotexist is one roll of the dice landing on a point in possibility-space. What makes it compelling is that the space itself was shaped by millions of real examples.