I would not describe what Dall.E does as a comp of real photos, so I assume that's also not what is happening here.

It would be like saying an original piece of artwork from a human artist is just a comp of a bunch of input images they've seen. Technically true, but not usually how the word "composition" is used.

I agree -- astronaut not terrifying. However, the hand on that teddy bear... :shiver:

More like the re creation of images from the millions of learned patterns.