LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find - eviltoast
  • e0qdk@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is totally going to turn into another JBIG2 lossy compression clusterfuck isn’t it…

    For those who are unfamiliar, JBIG2 is a compression standard that has a dubious reputation for replacing characters incorrectly in scanned documents (so 6 could become an 8, for example) leading to potentially serious issues when scanning things like medical and legal documents, construction blueprints, etc.