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While LLMs have been used for... a lot, it seems like this use might be one where it's not only reliable but it appears to outperform existing methods of image compression. Being able to cram more data into less space tends to lead to interesting developments, so I will be keeping my eye on this.

What do you guys think? Seem like it's deserving of less hype than I'm giving it? What kind of security holes do you think this could open?

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[–] EdgeOfToday@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (13 children)

With a neural network, you wouldn't be able to mathematically prove that the signal is perfectly recovered 100% of the time for all possible inputs. That is the case with PNG and FLAC. If you're just listening to music and need a good compression ratio, then sure, it won't be a big deal if a couple of bits are wrong. But that's also why we have lossy compression. If the goal is to make signal degradation imperceptible to a human, then you could get a much better compression ratio using neural networks. If it's truly critical that the signal isn't corrupted, it would probably be better to just use the original method.

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Seems like another “hey, what if we used LLMs for this” scenarios. It might be more effective, but exactly how many more resources are being used to make it do the same work as current compression algorithms? Effective doesn’t mean efficient and I think for lossless applications efficient is truly more important.

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ok but what if we used LLM AND blockchain for this

[–] ezures@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im sure we can squeeze an nft in there somewhere

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

S m a r t c o n t r a c t s

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