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by Tossrock 2989 days ago
This is quite visible in their demonstration slider-image; the building in the back-right changes from a brick building with glass windows to a stucco-ish building with a bunch of exterior duct-work.
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Also, the car behind the bus disappears. It looks like it's been photoshopped out. This is unexpected behavior from a compression algorithm. Users are conditioned to expect the quality to degrade uniformly across the whole image.
In fairness that detail isn't preserved in the other formats either. The new issue is merely the illusion of accuracy.
car is visible in WebP.
You would have to be very very careful indeed if you wanted to use this for anything with safety implications.