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		delichon on Dec 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into s... That confuses accurate with detailed. It can be accurate even if it only reports one bit, like greenery proportion "low" or "high".

ghostly_s on Dec 8, 2024 [–]

But it's not reporting one bit, it's generating a detailed (color!) photo. 100s of kilobits of made up garbage plus one accurate bit cannot reasonably be described as an "accurate" result.

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