That's weird. A cat is a cat is a cat, any alien with a visual organ and a perfect ability to paint, would reproduce the same thing.
Inside his mind he might have completely different associations with the image, and this weight manipulation trickery doesn't get us closer to those hypothetical associations.
An infrared image of a cat an an X-ray image of a cat are drastically different to an optical one, so it's not a given that they'd all draw the same thing.
If the alien is blasting the cat with soft x-rays constantly to perceive it, then it's mostly different because it killed the cat with radiation poisoning.
Shapes and proportions remain the same regardless. And even human artists can be... "inventive", with coloration or emphasis of some features over others.
It seems improbable that they'd draw anything we haven't drawn ourselves.
If you asked me to draw a cat in a party hat, I would get the number if ears legs and eyes correct, but my fur would be non-existent and there’s no way my cat eyes would glow in a reflection. The AI is thinking differently than humans.
