“First, it uses AI”
Nope. Stopped reading. Don’t care.
Looks like someone got Onioned.
Remember that Sloot thing from late 90s?
No, what was it?
This is so sad, Chat GPT generate me an email responding to this article
Lossless -> lossy -> mindless.
-> mindy?
mindly?
Could have just stored those in PiFS https://github.com/philipl/pifs
That’s nice, albeit I want to point out for anyone wondering that this is only conjectured and not guaranteed:
One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is normal, which is to say that its digits are all distributed evenly, with the implication that it is a disjunctive sequence, meaning that all possible finite sequences of digits will be present somewhere in it.
There is no guarantee for any specific sequence to appear in π, but for short chunks chances are better (it’s not really a probability, but it’s simpler to say and I can’t explain in details anyway). That’s because (from wiki):
It is widely believed that the (computable) numbers √2, π, and e are normal, but a proof remains elusive.
It’s pronounced “Piff Es” for anyone wondering
Nice datpiff.com
git-llmfs for JPEG, I kind of wish this was real just to laugh at users
He discovered alt text.
Here is another one, no compression:
- read image
- send a prompt “regenerate image, here is pixel-by-pixel description”
- enjoy the result
(sarcasm)
a typical jpeg of 20 Mb
Uh what. Literally should be the highest fucking possible quality from a $10K camera if it’s that big. My raw images aren’t even that big usually.
Raw images is where you go wrong. You need at least 10 mb of metadata tags to achieve professional levels of file sizes. How can you even look at a picture without having a full description of all your childhood memories that lead you to take this beautiful picture of yesterdays mac’'n’cheese dinner. This is why we need more data centers.
Its not typical, but you can get 20 Mb+ jpegs out of an entry level 18MP dlsr. Especially if there’s lots of color and at like 5500x3300 resolutions and created with 100% quality preset.
I checked my immich and I have some (and larger), but yeah, not exactly typical.Next you’ll be questioning the tears of joy!
Highest quality jpg?
I’ve read that the Trump administration is hiring him to archive all of the Epstein files using that format.
Compressing the Epstein files is easy: “Donald Trump raped children.” What’s my Weissman score?
Trying to find it funny, but in 2026 it’s way too close to the bone and just makes me sad.
Had Sam Altman personally vocalized this article in full sincerity, I would not have been surprised.
Yeah. I first thought it’s about jpeg, then i read ai and i wasnt sure if its worrying stupidity reporting or bad satire. Edit: i thought '92 i mean
Amateur. I can compress entire seasons of a TV series to a few bytes. All I have to do is type its title in Netflix and then BAM, gigabytes of video come out.
Back in the day we had this neat trick to do 100% compression on photos. Just print them out on pieces of paper, for completely byte-free storage!
Sure, but Netflix has a lot of cache misses for my favorite shows. I found a random website that has compressed matches for thousands more shows and movies than Netflix
I pirate my shit.
TTJ.jpg
On a similar note, I saw a story a bit back of someone saving input tokens by feeding the bot an image of a wall of text rather than the text itself and having it read the image via OCR.
Satire and reality are too hard too distinguish these days.
I mean, back in my days (👴) people sent a photo pasted into a word document, so things haven’t change that much…
I see this one all the time on LinkedIn, the management rubes love it
Lmfao “tears of joy”
Precisely! We human people all know that tears definitely do not express joy.
Correct?
I compress my meals by putting them into a blender to liquify them before consumption!
No no no, you have to freeze it first
