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> They are randomly lossy, which makes them unsuitable for any serious work. Ask ten people and they'll give ten different summaries. Are humans unsuitable too

• Workaccount2 1y ago
  Yes, which is why we write things down, and when those archives become too big we use lossless compression on them, because we cannot tolerate a compression tool that drops the street address of a customer or even worse, hallucinates a slightly different one.