Synthetic data will make individual media training data irrelevant
Reid Hoffman · In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Aug 30, 2024 · at 28:10
Reid Hoffman, venture capitalist and former OpenAI board member, discusses AI copyright lawsuits and content licensing strategy on The All-In Podcast.
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“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.”
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