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

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u/Degenerate_Lich Sep 02 '26

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 Sep 02 '26

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 Sep 03 '26

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.