Tech companies are turning to ‘synthetic data’ to train AI models – but there’s a hidden cost
- Written by James Jin Kang, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, RMIT University Vietnam

Last week the billionaire and owner of X, Elon Musk, claimed the pool of human-generated data that’s used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT has run out.
Musk didn’t cite evidence to support this. But other leading tech industry figures have made similar...