• Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    You’re saying if I encode a copyrighted work into a JPEG it isn’t infringement? It also uses statistics to produce an approximation of the input.

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      16 days ago

      You’re saying save one jpeg with the intent to reproduce exactly that image. I’m saying if you have a million images you have turned into weights, it won’t exactly reproduce anything unless there is very limited training data on what you’re having it predict.

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            15 days ago

            Isn’t it? Both methods just produced a data structure you can query to obtain a statistical approximation of a subset of the input data.

            Just because you moved the statistics from the JPEG to the ZIP file? That makes it ok?

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              15 days ago

              Do you think two students writing an essay on the same topic is plagiarism? No? Then congratulations, you understand why a lossy copy is not remotely the same thing as a statistical model.

              Really, you just chucked the word “statistical” into a poor description of JPEG, and refused all efforts to explain why that comparison does not work.

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                  15 days ago

                  Quantization in transformation space. I could explain it in enough detail for you to recreate the codecs I’ve written, if I thought you were actually listening.

                  In the next reply, I’m going to print out your entire comment history, clip each word into a hat, and pull them out at random, to see if you still respond with equally nonsensical posturing about JPEG.

                  In the reply after that, I’m going to copy-paste that posturing, but change a few letters.

                  Everyone but you can see out the difference in these concepts.