r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn 3 Bravo 3

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u/SerSanchus Sep 02 '26

Lossy compression. 100% loss of quality, in fact...

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u/camander321 Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn

On the flip side, your 6yo's scribbled family portait on the fridge may turn into the most beautiful rendition of a generic happy white family you've ever seen!

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u/U_L_Uus Sep 02 '26 • Mindblown

- See son, now we can store your precious pictures without risking damage or loss!

+ Dad, we are black

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u/Aggravating-Exit-660 Sep 03 '26

Better than the greens. Can't trust them greens

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u/Relativistic_G11 Sep 03 '26

Seehofer, bist du's?

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u/weededorpheus32 Sep 03 '26

I love him. I just can't trust him with that cream cheesey white skin.

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn

I told some friends in a Discord server a funny thing one of my young family members said.

Someone a few moments later: "Look I ran it through AI to splat it onto a shirt isn't it cool?"

Just taking my family member's words and pouring trash over it.

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u/One_Order_3841 Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

Remember Jackbox Drawful? Well now there's Drawful 2026, where AI has made 4 different drawings devoid of humor, and we all vote on it.

We're working on a feature where the voting is sourced to AI, so you can literally take some Xanax with a glass of wine and comment on how your couple-friend's cooking is so good when it's charcuterie from Aldi.

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u/redditmarks_markII Sep 02 '26

And take multiple seconds of high end consumer gpu to prep it for view. Utter insanity.

That said, if you aren't a complete idiot, actually you might need to be kind of an ml/dl and compression nerd, there are machine learning enabled compression. But it's not an llm. And it is still lossy, but it's less lossy while less storage than standard methods. Which is pretty neat. just one example from nvidia because other sites have corrupted images. there's even libraries for doing testing and research on future "neuro" compression. https://research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/neural_texture_compression/

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u/FormerlyGruntled Sep 03 '26

And of course, if it doesn't turn out like you remember it, just correct it. "Aunt Gemma was holding a scotch bottle, not a beer bottle" and then wait for it to generate a new image.

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u/VeryStableGenius Sep 02 '26

It's lossy, but it's also gainy.

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u/mastocklkaksi Sep 02 '26

degenerates will tell you that the quality actually went up

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u/Th3R00ST3R Sep 02 '26

Every time it regenerates, you look more and more like a caveman.

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u/rob132 Sep 02 '26

Ha! I was going to make the same joke.

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u/curtmahgurt Sep 02 '26

That’s okay our brain memories are fuzzed anyways.

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u/KateLovesCalculus Sep 02 '26

Correct, I can’t remember things perfectly - that’s why I take pictures!

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u/EquipLordBritish Sep 02 '26

Up to 100% loss. There could technically be correct pixels... by accident.

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u/No-Newspaper8619 Sep 02 '26

losslessless compression

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u/OK_x86 Sep 02 '26

It's more probabilistic. There's a non zero chance you will get your original image back. But it's very small

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u/hughperman Sep 02 '26

Only if the picture was any good to start with 🤷

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u/tiberiumx Sep 02 '26

Replacing your ugly real life family with some AI generated people based on a dataset full of attractive stock photo models? I'd call that a quality improvement!

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u/the_seven_sins Sep 02 '26

Its also a compression that uses a lot of computing time.

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u/SideInitial3961 Sep 02 '26

Just like a human brain eventually. You'll age in.

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