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I also wondered if I should say it's a 100% unreal picture.

If an artist paints on a canvas a woman without looking at a woman, but only uses his imagination based on all the women he has seen in his life, is it a true statement that the painting would be 100% not a photograph or picture but completely a painting, even though the man has seen countless photographs of women in his lifetime?

I think the AI is generating a completely new image based on a vast supply of images that the AI was trained on. The source of images could be the internet itself. This is a Google AI project, so they already have crawled most of the internet and could feed those images to their AI.

The woman does not exist. It is an image, but the pixels on your screen do not correspond to an actual, real human being. There is no unique soul, not even part of one, associated with this image, and I say it is a 100% unreal picture to distinguish it from an edited pre-existing picture.