That’s … redefining the word I would think.
“First, it uses AI”
Nope. Stopped reading. Don’t care.
Looks like someone got Onioned.
Shrug. Still don’t care.
Remember that Sloot thing from late 90s?
No, what was it?
found it - here’s a detailed account https://corecursive.com/sloot-digital-coding-system/
so basically there was a dutch tech bro in the late 90s who claimed he had developed a compression technique that could turn a movie into just a couple of kilobytes and right when he was going to sign with some investors he mysteriously passed away leaving no documents explaining his invention.
This is so sad, Chat GPT generate me an email responding to this article
Lossless -> lossy -> mindless.
-> mindy?
Probably not very.
mindly?
Could have just stored those in PiFS https://github.com/philipl/pifs
That’s nice, albeit I want to point out for anyone wondering that this is only conjectured and not guaranteed:
One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is normal, which is to say that its digits are all distributed evenly, with the implication that it is a disjunctive sequence, meaning that all possible finite sequences of digits will be present somewhere in it.
There is no guarantee for any specific sequence to appear in π, but for short chunks chances are better (it’s not really a probability, but it’s simpler to say and I can’t explain in details anyway). That’s because (from wiki):
It is widely believed that the (computable) numbers √2, π, and e are normal, but a proof remains elusive.
It’s pronounced “Piff Es” for anyone wondering
Idk if it’s irony, but the real pronounce is probably /paɪ ɛf-ɛs/ (english)
or /'pi fs/ in every other language that reads letters as they are written
He discovered alt text.
git-llmfs for JPEG, I kind of wish this was real just to laugh at users
Before you consider using the project, I highly recommend you read and understand the last paragraph of the LICENSE file. If you are seriously considering using it, it will become important.
This is so funny
For whoever is wondering, the license is MIT
Here is another one, no compression:
- read image
- send a prompt “regenerate image, here is pixel-by-pixel description”
- enjoy the result
(sarcasm)
a typical jpeg of 20 Mb
Uh what. Literally should be the highest fucking possible quality from a $10K camera if it’s that big. My raw images aren’t even that big usually.
Raw images is where you go wrong. You need at least 10 mb of metadata tags to achieve professional levels of file sizes. How can you even look at a picture without having a full description of all your childhood memories that lead you to take this beautiful picture of yesterdays mac’'n’cheese dinner. This is why we need more data centers.
Its not typical, but you can get 20 Mb+ jpegs out of an entry level 18MP dlsr. Especially if there’s lots of color and at like 5500x3300 resolutions and created with 100% quality preset.
I checked my immich and I have some (and larger), but yeah, not exactly typical.Next you’ll be questioning the tears of joy!
Highest quality jpg?
Trying to find it funny, but in 2026 it’s way too close to the bone and just makes me sad.
Had Sam Altman personally vocalized this article in full sincerity, I would not have been surprised.
Yeah. I first thought it’s about jpeg, then i read ai and i wasnt sure if its worrying stupidity reporting or bad satire. Edit: i thought '92 i mean
I’ve read that the Trump administration is hiring him to archive all of the Epstein files using that format.
Compressing the Epstein files is easy: “Donald Trump raped children.” What’s my Weissman score?
Amateur. I can compress entire seasons of a TV series to a few bytes. All I have to do is type its title in Netflix and then BAM, gigabytes of video come out.
Back in the day we had this neat trick to do 100% compression on photos. Just print them out on pieces of paper, for completely byte-free storage!
Sure, but Netflix has a lot of cache misses for my favorite shows. I found a random website that has compressed matches for thousands more shows and movies than Netflix
I pirate my shit.
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On a similar note, I saw a story a bit back of someone saving input tokens by feeding the bot an image of a wall of text rather than the text itself and having it read the image via OCR.
Satire and reality are too hard too distinguish these days.
I mean, back in my days (👴) people sent a photo pasted into a word document, so things haven’t change that much…
I see this one all the time on LinkedIn, the management rubes love it
There is a future where AI can simply look up the DNA for any individual you specify and it can perfectly reconstruct what they look like, at any age.
You’re joking, right? There’s a reason genotype and phenotype aren’t synonyms.
There’s also a reason identical twins look alike.
Wow, Jack and Ross look so alike! How did he get his arm back, isn’t that after the accident?
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted, it’s a good point that shows that genetics is the main factor for your appearance
Maybe but there is more to the outcome than just genes. Certain ones can be activated of deactivated and that can be done by epigentics for example. Gene expression is a thing.
The AI would need way more information that just DNA to generate an image of the person.
But they could probably get 90% the way there with just DNA. I think that was the point.
No, they couldn’t, that’s what’s being said. If you have a huge state machine with billions of parameters, toggling a different subset can yield wildly different results.
They said “perfectly”, not “90%”. You’re trying to move the goalposts.
Identical twins also share the same womb, so it’s not 100% genes.
Same womb, similar growing environment, etc.
But even then, they’re not perfectly identical. Very similar, but not the exact same.
I don’t think root comment was saying the AI would generate perfectly accurate images. I think 90% accuracy is doable, just from DNA
If you’re just talking about a strand of DNA with no epigenetic info I think 90% is being very optimistic.
Forensic DNA phenotyping is actually being used. Of course it’s not perfect, but it can give a direction.
Hadn’t heard of this before but I’m more than a little skeptical, especially if its being used for policing
"More recently, companies such as Parabon NanoLabs and Identitas have begun offering forensic DNA phenotyping services for U.S. and international law enforcement. However, the science behind the commercial services offered by Parabon NanoLabs has been criticized as it has not been subjected to scrutiny in peer-reviewed scientific publications. It has been suggested that it is not known "whether their ability to estimate a face’s appearance is better than chance, or if it’s an approximation based on what we know about ancestry” -DNA phenotyping wiki
Not unless it can predict all the contributing factors.
DNA isn’t the full story.
Maybe they got hit by a car, were a hobbyist boxer, or had surgery, for example.
You’re kind of describing forensic DNA phenotyping.
