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by spencerchubb 656 days ago
it is theoretically possible, but the results and bandwidth would be worse. sending an image that large would take a lot longer than sending text
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This. Images passed to LLMs are typically downsampled to something like 512x512 because that’s perfectly good for feature extraction. Getting text would mean very large images so the text is still readable.