Using synthetic data for AI training is 'a big mistake,' says AI pioneer Rich Sutton
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Sutton’s warning on synthetic training data is a shot across the bow for teams leaning on self-generated corpora to escape data scarcity. If your roadmap assumes heavy synthetic data use, you need a parallel track validating whether performance gains are durable or just overfitting to your own model’s biases.
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