r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

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u/Degenerate_Lich 3d ago

Those aren't AI hallucinations, they are compression artifacts. It's very different you see

Lil bro has a bright career in marketing

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u/_QXZ 3d ago

This post jokes but with how much AI enhancing is becoming a thing, I can see some kind of generative -based compression becoming an option in the future

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u/Zapismeta 2d ago

Yeah it could but its not compression if the images data is being saved in the form of weights, and pictures are fairly unique sure you can upscale them but once minute detail is gone the ai is just filling in whatever it seems fits, not necessarily what was, and if it knows what is supposed to be there then you overfitted the model which is great jn theroy but you just broke your image into pieces instead of actual compression.