Debate Erupts: Is AI Just Compression, and Can It Create New Information?

A claim that 90% of coding over 50 years was drudgery now done by AI in 1/10,000th the time sparked debate. Critics countered that AI is fundamentally compression with inevitable losses, limited by training-data coverage rather than capable of creating new information.

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