It reminds me of this rfc for speeding up packet exchange https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9564/
I’d be game for that. I hate the fact that photos of me exist in this world.
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
Yeah, like how they are destroying rare books.
I mean, you don’t get that back just by asking the content theft machine.
It’s what Apple and MS basically do by uploading all your images to iCloud and showing the name in your images folder.
Edit to ask: is this what the human brain does when retrieving a memory?
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.
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.
TTJ.jpg
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!
Lmfao “tears of joy”
Precisely! We human people all know that tears definitely do not express joy.
Correct?
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?
This is so sad, Chat GPT generate me an email responding to this article
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 see this one all the time on LinkedIn, the management rubes love it
Saves input tokens and uses more output because of OCR, and output is priced way higher.
It’s an accounting trick. It uses a different budget…
Also if you’re doing anything multi-prompt, that output is re-used as (luckily cached) input tokens for the next prompt anyway lol
I mean, back in my days (👴) people sent a photo pasted into a word document, so things haven’t change that much…
They still do
Lossless -> lossy -> mindless.
-> mindy?
mindly?
Probably not very.
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 readsletters as they are writtennormallyI think it’s akin to ‘GIF is pronounced ziph’
Nice datpiff.com
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.
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.I am not sure I’ve ever used the 100 quality setting on jpegs. Many years ago I experimented with that a lot and decided that anything over 90 was not different to my eye but the file size was much bigger, relatively speaking. So yeah I suppose if you did use 100, a 20 MB jpeg image is not hard to reach.
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.
Lol I’m so lost what the joke is here
Highest quality jpg?
Next you’ll be questioning the tears of joy!
brilliant satire that critiques all of magazine journalism.
i love going to [insert publication here] and reading another article about ‘so and so is ready for their next chapter in life.’ the so and so always an uninteresting, overly wealthy fuckwit that hasn’t accomplished anything other than going to college and having a wealthy parent.
Throw some angel investment cash at this guy already!
The sad thing is that this has been possible for decades using convolutional autoencoders, but with LLMs we forgot that AI architectures other than transformers still exist.
Yeah, it’s really awful. With any luck, AI winter will follow AI summer, like usual, and the serious people can come out again. Although, aren’t CNNs more of a this century thing? I guess two decades is still decades…
IIRC autoencoders actually produce the same image to within our ability to notice, as well.
