A tech writer's analogy comparing Large Language Models (LLMs) to a "small zip file that contains all human knowledge" has drawn criticism for its fundamental inaccuracies. The writer suggested LLMs compress all human writing into a model runnable on a single GPU, containing all internet and library information. Critics point out that zip files are lossless, while LLMs are not, and the analogy vastly oversimplifies the astronomical difference in information and structural data between a compressed file and an LLM. AI
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