Thankyou for the satire tag. It's so hard to tell these days.

Better in the 90th, there we convert an photo to an ASCII image with very few bytes (AI free)

Someone's actually going to do stupid shit like this and use the same excuses to justify its shortcomings.

Lol. I wouldn’t be surprised if some kid did actually try this.

This is some good satire. And, yes, human memory is not made of "records", it is reconstructed every time. AI models are nothing like human brains, however.

You say satire, but kids developing "magical" compression algorithms were a thing in programming long before LLMs. This exact idea is not novel, even though it was executed quite a bit better by Facebook. It never got good enough for a real world application. https://github.com/facebookresearch/NeuralCompression

The kid is a real Johnny Computers

Apples next plan to reduce your photo size on the phone so they can continue to provide absolute minimum storage options. They would probably still have 16GB iPhones if this was even a glimmer of a possibility a few years ago.

i mean, that is how compression works. you can use gzip as a generative language model without modification.

I mean i'm sure there's cloud services that resize your pics to 720p then give them back to you upscaled

What is his Weissman score?