“While synthetic data might bridge some of the gap, at least in situations where there’s a definitive right and wrong answer (like a mathematical problem), there are likely diminishing returns due to the sheer amount of data necessary to make a large language model even larger — data amounting to more than four times the size of the internet.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
While synthetic data might bridge some of the gap, at least where there is a definitive right or wrong answer, there are likely diminishing returns because of the sheer amount of data needed to make an LLM even larger, which he puts at more than four times the size of the internet.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, There Is No AI Revolution, paragraph 11.
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Conditions
- synthetic data might bridge some of the gap (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- at least where there is a definitive right and wrong answer (scope, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- synthetic data might bridge some of the gap
- at least where there is a definitive right and wrong answer
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- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
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: Where's Your Ed At, There Is No AI Revolution
While synthetic data might bridge some of the gap, at least in situations where there’s a definitive right and wrong answer (like a mathematical problem), there are likely diminishing returns due to the sheer amount of data necessary to make a large language model even larger — data amounting to more than four times the size of the internet.
- Where
- paragraph 11
- Published
- 2025-02-24
- Source observed
- , live page
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- full text, public
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- Assessment wyea-wheres-the-money-c1db9b-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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