I’ve found a core misconception is persistent... people use the CLIP interrogator model expecting it to recover the original prompt from an image. It cannot do this, and if you look at the architecture it becomes clear why. The mapping from prompt to image is non-injective - many different prompts produce nearly identical outputs, and some visual featur…
The prompt isn't hiding inside the image
CLIP Interrogator is one of the most misunderstood tools in the Stable Diffusion ecosystem. It solves a real problem, which is why it won't go away.
