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Synthetic Data: The Hidden Fuel Behind Modern LLM Scaling
By 2022, AI labs had consumed most high-quality human text online, prompting a shift to synthetic data. Models now generate their own training examples, reasoning traces, and problem sets, enabling capabilities like coding assistants and math solvers. This self-play approach, proven by AlphaGo Zero in 2017, has become a core scaling technique for LLMs.
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The article rightly highlights synthetic data's role in scaling, but glosses over risks like model collapse and bias amplification that could undermine long-term gains.
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