Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images (arstechnica.com)

I find the relationship (or equivalence?) between data compression and ML highly interesting and expect more advances in data compression fueled by progress in ML research.

See also: "Text Compression Is Equivalent to AI", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30712059

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32907494