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This is an idea I’ve been toying with for a bit. There is a ton of media that includes unimportant information that doesn’t need to be stored pixel perfect. Storing large portions of the image data as text will save substantial amounts of storage, and as the reality of on-device image generation becoming commonplace sets in digital memories will become the main way people capture the world around them. I think this will inevitably be the next form of media capture (photography and video), not replacing other methods/ formats, but I could see things like phone cameras having saving images as digital memories set to default to save on storage.

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[–] Mandarbmax 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a really cool idea. Other posters here have explained why it isn't a good idea, but I still think it is neat. Maybe there is a niche edge case use for such a thing? If nothing else it is very scifi

[–] sumofchemicals 3 points 1 year ago

Agree it's fun to think about even if not practical. If anything reminds me of how my own memory works, where it's more like a description of what I saw than an image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

One use case might be for asset store pages, to show the object in various environments.

Maybe even have a field where you can input a description of the environment where you plan to use the asset