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> They are randomly lossy, which makes them unsuitable for any serious work.

Ask ten people and they'll give ten different summaries. Are humans unsuitable too?



Yes, which is why we write things down, and when those archives become too big we use lossless compression on them, because we cannot tolerate a compression tool that drops the street address of a customer or even worse, hallucinates a slightly different one.




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