New "symbolic image compressor" posted in r/computerscience turns out to be AI hallucinated nonsense

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• shaggyb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here’s my “symbolic image compressor”:

  American Gothic is a painting of two people standing in front of a farmhouse. One has a pitchfork.

  Are you impressed? I used symbols to compress the image down to under a kilobyte. And I didn’t need an AI.

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  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Wow, that’s super impressive. The compression is so efficient that it’s like I can see the original image in my head. Truly, we are living in the future.

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• altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reading OP and thinking about their misinformed understanding of what they are doing, I came upon an idea I propose to all of you: the almighty Babylonian Compression Algorythm.

  As long as we have all combinations of (say, 256x256px) images in the database, we can cut down image size to just a reference to a file in said database.

  It produces a bit-by-bit copy of any image without any compression, so it puts OOP’s project to shame. Little, almost non-existent problem is having access to said database, bloated with every existing but also not-yet-existing image. But since OOP’s solution depends on proprietary ChatGPT on someone else’s server, we are on par there.

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  • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Funny enough that actually wouldn’t be more efficient of a compression algorithm, the size of the file reference would be at best exactly the same size as the image that is being referenced, just because any fewer bits would lead to duplicate reference locations.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    De-duplicate the internet. You have your orders.

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  • axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like a library of Babel of images.

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• Dima@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Also infuriating is when the OP gets told by a mod to stop posting AI slop comments and OP responds:

  I’m explaining the project in as detailed and clear a manner as possible - using the LLM to do it. The same one that helped me build it. Shut it down then man, why warn me?

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• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol. It’s funny to see vibecoders stumble

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  • meliante@lemmy.pt ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not a vibe coder. That’s just an idiot.

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    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same difference imho

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    • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Vibethought

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    • primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So the superset that includes vibe coders?

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    • falseWhite@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think you do need to write code to implement compression algorithms.

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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s hard to imagine turning an image into JSON would manage to compress it. 🤔

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI generated

  “recursive symbolic”

  Sounds about right

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• altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reading OP and thinking about their misinformed understanding of what they are doing, I came upon an idea I propose to all of you: the almighty Babylonian Compression Algorythm.

  As long as we have all combinations of (say, 256x256px) images in the database, we can cut down image size to just a reference to a file in said database.

  It produces a bit-by-bit copy of any image without any compression, so it puts OOP’s project to shame. Little, almost non-existent problem is having access to said database, bloated with every existing but also not-yet-existing image. But since OOP’s solution depends on proprietary ChatGPT on someone else’s server, we are on par there.

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is that like converting raster images to SVG? Either it emebeds the actual image as data, or it “vectorizes” every fucking pixel. Filesize will show you which.

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