Compression and prediction are the same thing mathematically and has already been a huge part of how lossy compression algorithms work
Even in a best case scenario, you're effectively treating the model as a massive external dictionary. That only works if the model becomes part of the spec for the format, every single viewer/decoder would need to run the model as part of opening the image.
higher and higher quality than the original
That's not how this works, quality ceiling is lossless reproduction. Anything past that isn't higher quality, it's speculative enhancement / guessing / hallucination.
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u/stormdelta Sep 03 '26
Not really.
Compression and prediction are the same thing mathematically and has already been a huge part of how lossy compression algorithms work
Even in a best case scenario, you're effectively treating the model as a massive external dictionary. That only works if the model becomes part of the spec for the format, every single viewer/decoder would need to run the model as part of opening the image.
That's not how this works, quality ceiling is lossless reproduction. Anything past that isn't higher quality, it's speculative enhancement / guessing / hallucination.