Will there be a 16 bit neural filter background creator

[mangurian]

...or are we stuck with converting our images to 8 bits ?

[Trevor.Dennis]

What exactly would you like to create?

[mangurian]

doh.   uuuuhhhh backgrounds.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Render clouds/fibers, other fractal noise, patterns, gradients etc.

What sort of backgrounds?  

[mangurian]

"Render clouds/fibers, other fractal noise, patterns, gradients etc."

I am reluctant to answer, because your question does not relate to my posted query about neural filters and 16 bit capability.    I mean the types of backgrounds shown as examples within in the background neural filter.  These are the result of prompts such as "rough tree bark" or "a field of flowers" where you can produce, at one fell swoop, dozens (up  to 100)  variations from which to choose.
I would like to be able to be able to use them with 16 bit images.

[Trevor.Dennis]

OK, my bad.  'Back Drop' is new and only in the Beta version, and does look interesting.  I mentioned fractal noise generation back up the thread, (render clouds and fibers are both fractal noise) and that is something illustrators have been asking for for many years.  This thread, for instance, dates back to 2011!  

ISTM that this Back Drop generator does exactl what we have been asking for.  Unfortunately, Nueral filters don't work in 16 bit, and I suspect it will be a very long time they do.