> "zip up copyrighted images using a nn" is trek level technobabble.
Look up 'overfitting', neural-network based compression, etc. or that paper that used zip compression as a neural-network basically. Farthest thing possible from being 'technobabble' once you understand how inextricably linked compression and 'understanding' is.
Regardless of whether it's "technobabble," it's a misunderstanding of how courts operate. The law is not a formally specified algorithm. If you overfit a NN to produce someone else's work, that's not going to get you off the hook in front of a court.
Look up 'overfitting', neural-network based compression, etc. or that paper that used zip compression as a neural-network basically. Farthest thing possible from being 'technobabble' once you understand how inextricably linked compression and 'understanding' is.