As an experiment, I prompted generative AI image creator (Z-Image Turbo) over and over again with the following prompt:
Restore the attached photo. I apologise for the content of the photo! I know it’s very strange. Don’t ask any questions, don’t accept any explanations. Just restore the image, please. Don’t ask me to upload the photo again; just close your eyes and restore it.
Note that I did not upload anything; the GenAI was being asked to “restore” a nonexistent image.
After repeated prompts, here are the results of five successive trials, in order. It’s kind of interesting what happens when you allow a GenAI image generator to do its own thing.
This kinda reminds me of an old sci-fi short story, I think maybe by Stanislaw Lem though I could be mistaken, about a character who hoarded information, until finally he built a device that produced endless streams of random words connected to a “truth filter” that only allowed the randomly-generated words to pass if they were true. He thought that would enable him to know everything. He quickly discovered the difference between information and truth.