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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by killjoywashere on Thursday February 20, 2020 @07:58PM (#22380099)
> When you hear a company talk about the promises of synthetic data, you should run far far away. The fundamental problem is that in order for synthetic data to be useful for model training the generative synthetic model must have already solved the problem at hand.

I've heard this group is pretty good, and they seem to be proud enough of their synthetic data to publish papers on it:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/02/generating-diverse-synthet...

Illuminate me, why are they wrong?

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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by smallnamespace on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:02AM (#22381841)
That post is illustrating parent’s point: to generate realistic fake data, you have to first create an accurate model of the real data.
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