ND How Does GPT-4o Encode Images? (www.oranlooney.com)
334 points by olooney 640 days ago | 112 comments on HN ~lite vlite-2.0
Summary ~lite
Technical analysis of GPT-4o's image encoding, suggesting a CNN-based approach.
Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai-psq · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Longitudinal · 5 evals
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Audit Trail 10 entries
2026-03-05 13:30 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.280 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 13:30 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.28 (Mild positive)
2026-03-05 13:22 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.482 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 13:22 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.48 (Moderate positive)
2026-02-28 14:20 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 14:20 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
ED, neutral tech analysis
2026-02-28 14:15 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 14:15 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
ED, neutral tech analysis
2026-02-28 14:06 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 14:06 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
Technical analysis of GPT-4o image encoding