This is so sad, Chat GPT generate me an email responding to this article
Lossless -> lossy -> mindless.
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!
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…
They still do
