synthetic data
8 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2024 by Meta's Generative AI Head · across every show →
Everything said about synthetic data, oldest first
Apr 22, 2024 positive
May 15, 2024 bearish
Generating synthetic data could impose a 5x compute tax on model training
“It will make training more expensive because instead of just doing one backward pass, you now potentially have to do many forward passes because at each forward pass, you're going to come up with some output. Then the model has to decide which of those outputs…”
Oct 30, 2024 bullish
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Dec 11, 2024 bearish
Wang: Pure synthetic AI training data has underperformed industry expectations
“One of the things that we've seen over the past few past year in particular is that synthetic data has not worked as well as I think everybody had hoped. You know, pure synthetic data, just using data generated from the models to try to train future models, th…”
Apr 23, 2025
Patel: Human labeling is unscalable, forcing reliance on synthetic AI data
“Using humans to train models is just so expensive, right? So then there's the magic of sort of reinforcement learning and other synthetic data technologies, right? Where the model is helping teach the model, right? So you have many models in, in, in a sort of,…”
Nov 12, 2025 bullish