The Database of Every Picture Imaginable
5 min readJan 15
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I wrote the post below in 1993 for April Fools, soon after I’d joined the Disney VR Studio. I posted it anonymously to USENET (the plaintext Reddit of the day).
I didn’t know much about neural nets back then, but the idea with this ‘bit-index’ is that any image can be represented by a single number, a numeric ‘prompt’ of sorts, which in the worst case is the concatenation of all bits in the…