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Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

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Re: Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

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Post by magicalist »

rowbin wrote: post #2

That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it. The audacity...

> That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it

This post is written by three of the authors of the JPEG XL spec, implementors of the reference and rust implementations of libjxl, and...longtime google employees.

Re: Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

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Post by orbital-decay »

magicalist wrote: post #6
rowbin wrote: post #2

That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it. The audacity...

> That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it This post is written by three of the authors of the JPEG XL spec, implementors of the reference and rust implementations of libjxl, and...longtime google employees.

From what I can tell, it's written by Gemini

Re: Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

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Post by zerobees »

Mindless2112 wrote: post #7

> In this Gemini-reconstructed scene, ... I'm generally pretty pro-AI, but I find this icky. Of course, I wouldn't have noticed except the whiteboard drawing seemed not quite right, so I'll probably be fooled in the future.

Based on what I've heard, Google is monitoring per-org usage and strongly / incessantly encouraging teams to experiment with the technology, so a lot of tokens get spent on pointless stuff like that. The preceding diagram, which is needlessly busy and blurry, appears to be AI-generated too.
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