Ars Technica: Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images

Ars Technica: Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images. “Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG or WebP at high compression ratios, though there are significant caveats.”