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tromptoday at 8:07 AM3 repliesview on HN

I'm more interested in the converse question: how well does an LLM perform as a compressor, compared to gzip (ignoring its insanely lower speed)?


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gkbrktoday at 8:11 AM

Top contestant in the Hutter Prize uses a neural network for compression. So fair to say, LLMs would perform pretty well compared to gzip.

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anax32today at 8:44 AM

hallucinations are lossy compression artefacts

asdfsa32today at 8:12 AM

lossless vs lossy is the question.

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