synthetic data

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 30, 2024 by Reid Hoffman · across every show →

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Aug 30, 2024 bearish

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Synthetic data will make individual media training data irrelevant

“Don't try to hold out for money on the training side of things, because, you know, we're going to create synthetic data, we're going to do all kinds of other things that are going to mean that no one's particular data is really going to matter.”

Reid Hoffman Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 28:10 In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Mar 23, 2026

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Mensch: AI synthetic data is efficient but cannot replace human training signal

“It's mostly an efficient way of training models to have bigger models that are used as teachers for smaller models, but it's not enough. And so you also need human signal.”

Arthur Mensch Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:14:17 Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

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