Generation loss
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This article is about the signal quality phenomenon. For the novel by Elizabeth Hand, see Generation Loss. For the Westworld episode, see Generation Loss (Westworld).
Generation loss is the loss of quality between subsequent copies or transcodes of data. Anything that reduces the quality of the representation when copying, and would cause further reduction in quality on making a copy of the copy, can be considered a form of generation loss. File size increases are a common result of generation loss, as the introduction of artifacts may actually increase the entropy of the data through each generation.
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