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What I’ve described sounds a lot like ChatGPT, or most any other large language model.Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web ...

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While running tests, Bühlmann found that a novel image compressed with Stable Diffusion looked subjectively better at higher compression ratios (smaller file size) than JPEG or WebP.