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.
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.
Could have just stored those in PiFS https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Lmfao “tears of joy”
Precisely! We human people all know that tears definitely do not express joy.
Correct?
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.
Saves input tokens and uses more output because of OCR, and output is priced way higher.
This is so sad, Chat GPT generate me an email responding to this article
Lossless -> lossy -> mindless.
I’ve read that the Trump administration is hiring him to archive all of the Epstein files using that format.
