Techniques

Synthetic Data

Also known as: synthetic dataset

In one line

Data generated by AI to train or test other AI systems.

What does Synthetic Data mean?

Synthetic data plugs gaps where real data is scarce, sensitive, or biased. It's widely used to fine-tune models and generate fair evaluation sets.

A real-world example

Generating 10,000 fake customer-support conversations to fine-tune a support model without exposing real customer data.

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