So you need to optimise on compressed version, not the whole thing. What they’re doing right now is akin to a human trying to hold an entire picture - or entire movie - in their head all at once.

We can’t do it. AIs can sort of do it.

Latent diffusion models already demonstrated that operating on a compressed representation gives far better results, faster, but I don’t think we’re anywhere near the limit for what’s possible there. It’s no coincidence that this is how humans work.