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ares623today at 6:50 AM1 replyview on HN

Who needs terabyte hard drives when all your photos can stored as plaintext prompts instead. Finally, the perfect storage format!


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pjc50today at 9:26 AM

There is actually some work on doing this; after all, an imagegen model is simply a very large number of images that have been compressed together. Given a stable model and a means of inferring a prompt for an image, you can then generate a base image and store compressed deltas on top of it.

(of course the limit case of this is Samsung moon replacement)