[P] I turned Stable Diffusion into a lossy image compression codec and it performs great!

After playing around with the Stable Diffusion source code a bit, I got the idea to use it for lossy image compression and it works even better than expected.
Details and colab source code here:

https://matthias-buehlmann.medium.com/stable-diffusion-based-image-compresssion-6f1f0a399202?source=friends_link&sk=a7fb68522b16d9c48143626c84172366

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