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		slater on Dec 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Short Message Compression Using LLMs i always wondered if e.g. telcos had special short codes for stuff people often send, like at xmas many people write "merry christmas" in an SMS, and the telco just sends out "[code:mx]" to all recipient phones, to save on bandwidth and disk space?

qingcharles on Dec 31, 2024 [–]

No, the systems are not that sophisticated, from having worked on them in the past.

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