Am I looking at the academic theater of sycophantic LLM fed cranky prompts? "fractal recursive residual coding" = 45% size reduction per iteration after 13 pas

Am I looking at the academic theater of sycophantic LLM fed cranky prompts? "fractal recursive residual coding" = 45% size reduction per iteration after 13 passes of the output of LZMA2 piped back into LZMA2? If true, that alone is crazy.