It seems that AI companies including Microsoft, OpenAI, and Cohere are doing everything they can to find synthetic data with which to train their AI products. Citing the limited availability of “organic” human-generated data in the world wide web, these companies aim to use AI-generated (synthetic) data in a sort of infinite loop, where training is achieved on data that’s already been generatively created.
“If you could get all the data that you needed off the web, that would be fantastic,” said Aidan Gomez, chief executive of $2 billion LLM start-up Cohere to the Financial Times.
