Kind of an odd blog post -- is this AI generated? Or maybe written by someone who isn't a native English speaker? The writing feels off.
In any case, maybe worth linking directly to the paper, it's an easy read and more informative: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14029
The tl;dr is they tested CLIP variants for zero-shot classification on CIFAR-10 and STL-10 at different levels of image compression and observed how performance dropped with more compression. They claim the purpose is more about demonstrating performance change attribution using this Integrated Gradients method but imo it doesn't appear more informative than just the general, intuitive observation that decreased image quality = decreased CLIP performance.