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It’s interesting that this article opens framing the problem as “data scarcity” when that’s not the real issue at all. ----- \" developers are already running up against supply limitations and may soon exhaust training resources altogether. Against this backdrop of data scarcity\" ---- We’re not running out of data far from it. Every second, people generate new data across social media, search queries, emails, and every other digital interaction. The problem isn’t that data doesn’t exist; the problem is that it’s expensive to extract, clean, and use in a way that won’t trigger lawsuits. This isn’t a data problem. It’s a money problem

And this idea of AI eating its own tail and leading to catastrophic results should sound familiar to all readers. This is not a new problem. This has been happening to every one of us for years. Every time anyone scrolls through a feed that only shows you what you already agree with, or headlines are believed before they\'re fact checked... every time the internet feeds you a slightly distorted version of reality it’s the same self-consuming loop. No fresh data. No real perspective. Just the same recycled narratives, mutating with each pass. Synthetic data is bad for AI models to be trained on the same way this \'synthetic data\' were all exposed to is bad for us.

This MAD data problem has a solution so obvious it hurts: just don’t do this. Want AI models that aren’t gibberish? Use real data. Want people who aren’t detached from reality? Encourage real critical thinking. Of course, this is easier said than done, especially at scale. On an individual level, if someone comes to you with type II diabetes and is willing to make a change, the answer is clear: off the carbs and off the couch. But convincing an entire nation of diabetics to make that change systemically....That’s a different story the same goes for critical thinking. Teaching one person to question information, read beyond headlines, and challenge assumptions is not impossible. But how do you convince everyone to do it...