[jacquesm]

By your definition the script and a list of actors should be counted as compression, but that's clearly not what this particular invention claimed to do. An AI model is more like a drawing-by-the-numbers game than a compression method. It creates something that looks superficially like the original but isn't the original.

[hnfong]

Any "compression" mechanism that apparently violates Shanon's theorems would be "lossy" anyway, and lossy compression is essentially creating something that looks superficially like the original but isn't.

A script and a list of actors would take up 8k already (if not more), so yeah, an AI that can work on the prompt "take this script and make it like a Hollywood blockbuster" might be our best way to attempt to recreate this "compression" system with SoTA tech.

[jacquesm]

Sloot claimed his method was lossless, and it supposedly started out from a digital representation (without compression artifacts such as introduced by DCT or FT).