I mean there are billions of perceptually distinct images that map to the same “text description”. So text would generally be both lossy and inefficient. > ins

I mean there are billions of perceptually distinct images that map to the same “text description”. So text would generally be both lossy and inefficient. > instead of a list of pixels We don’t store lists of pixels. Not even lossless formats like PNG does that. Good ole JPEG has 1:10 - 1:20 compression ratio, ballpark.