> When they made the MP3 format, for example, they took a lot of music and used that to create algorithms that are effective for reproducing real-world music using less data
Your entire argument is predicated on this incorrect assertion. Your argument, as is, is therefore completely invalid.
Even if we accept it's wrong (which I suspect is me being unclear: I wasn't suggesting MP3 is some kind of trained algorithm, just that humans developed it while testing on a range of music—which is well documented, with Tom's Diner famously being the first song encoded—which is how any such product gets developed, I accept the context makes it read like I was implying something else, my bad), I give a separate examples with varying degrees of similarity to training and then make my own comments, I explicitly say after this that I don't think the MP3 example is very comparable.
While I get why you'd read what I said that way given context, I wasn't clear, maybe don't reject my entire post immediately after making an assumption about my point barely any way into it.
Your entire argument is predicated on this incorrect assertion. Your argument, as is, is therefore completely invalid.