I view it as a form of fraud. There's no way that worked or could have worked.

Perhaps not literally, but you can easily imagine training an embedding on a large amount of existing video, and then delivering somebody "the point in space that decodes to the video with the least residual compared to the original".

Conceptually, most modern movies are just linear combinations of basis tropes (tvtropes.org).

Yes that is why I specified it was non-existent. But the idea behind it is in the same vein somehow. Maybe what Sloot envisioned was something similar to LLMs.

I thought I had come up with something with a similar performance once. Then a couple hours later I realized that I just (still) suck at combinatorics :)