It’s closer to black magic than tracing. It’s really closer to sculpting. You take a machine, show it a few million pictures of dogs to teach it what dogs look like, then hand it a big block of white noise and ask it to show you a dog. It then carves away all the parts it doesn’t think look like dog, repeats until the result doesn’t change much and shows you the dog it essentially hallucinated out of the noise.
It’s closer to black magic than tracing. It’s really closer to sculpting. You take a machine, show it a few million pictures of dogs to teach it what dogs look like, then hand it a big block of white noise and ask it to show you a dog. It then carves away all the parts it doesn’t think look like dog, repeats until the result doesn’t change much and shows you the dog it essentially hallucinated out of the noise.