Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

In pondering this as a real world application/solution, in which we humans describe a photo, save the description as text, and then rely on AI to render the image.... I could see this being like a game of telephone. Some people will describe the photo very well (as I believe was done to generate the middle image in the article), whereas some people will be very non-descript with something blunt like "my cat", which will then be rendered veeery differently.

I’ve wondered when we’d start having “AI” compression algorithms that take into account the subject matter over what we have now. JPEG, for example, just takes each 16x16 pixel block and throws away high frequency information with no regard for what that information was.

Very fascinating, but as they said cannot be compared because they rely on different requirements.

It only works because the model allready knows what a 'giraffe' is. It's pre-stored. But if one had to describe a giraffe, one needs to rely on other things which we take for granted that humans know (like what hair and eyes look like).

By that standard I can say that a picture of albert einstein only takes like 30 bytes if i assume the recipient knows what he looked like.