alt Hacker NewsGP is correct, that’s the definition of “lossy”. We don’t need to invent ever new marketing buzzwords for well-established technical concepts.
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protimewaster • 11/08/2024
But this marketing term has been regularly used in academic papers for nearly 50 years (or probably more), so it seems like it should get a pass IMO.
It's also used in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on the term "transparency" as it relates to data compression.
Dylan16807 • 11/08/2024
It is in no way the definition of lossy. It is a subset of lossy. Most lossy image/video compression has visible artifacting, putting it outside the subset.
GP is incorrect.
There is "Is identical", "looks identical" and "has lost sufficient detail to clearly not be the original." - being able to differentiate between these three states is useful.