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Why choose the word "inflation" to mean the opposite of compression? If you said it to a stranger, they'd assume you mean the price of LLMs is going up due to s
by geor9e 1y ago
Why choose the word "inflation" to mean the opposite of compression? If you said it to a stranger, they'd assume you mean the price of LLMs is going up due to scarcity. I would call this LLM fluffing or LLM decompression
- zahlman 1y ago> Why choose the word "inflation" to mean the opposite of compression? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflate seems relevant here.
- antonvs 1y agoPlus there's already a name for the general phenomenon: AI slop. Sure, it doesn't directly capture the compression/decompression aspect, but it's assumed that slop includes unnecessary filler.