My recollection is that there were absolutely insane compression ratios demonstrated from fractal compression, but that they required hours of manual (human) wo

My recollection is that there were absolutely insane compression ratios demonstrated from fractal compression, but that they required hours of manual (human) work doing pattern matching, finding the proper transformations between look-a-likes, etc. I think it's totally plausible that modern AI techniques could replace the need for free graduate student labor.