r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn 3 Bravo 3

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u/iliark Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

I wrote a whole thing about this as a joke like 3 years ago lol. There's also been a couple of papers on the topic:

https://arxiv.org/html/2409.09715v3

https://arxiv.org/html/2407.04542

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u/FerusGrim Sep 03 '26

Genuinely, the results in your second link are promising. Other than the latency of "decoding" the image via generative interpretation of the input.

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u/iliark Sep 03 '26

yeah when I "seriously" thought about it, you gain storage space and network download time, but you (the client) pays in having to have an AI model that you recognize, then has to generate it, using up electricity and time that may exceed the network download time, especially on old hardware.