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Humans use synthetic data of their own to help with learning. Reasoning, imagination, armchair philosophy, theoreticizing, and neurosciences talk about dream repetition. If synthetic daa is bad or flawed its only temporary until the technique gets further honed.

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There's a huge difference between "the AI receives synthetic data as if from an omniscient being and proceeds as if it were true" and "the animal brain creates synthetic data and assesses its plausibility and downstream consequences."

Synthetic data in AI training in fact has nothing to do with dreaming or armchair theorizing. It's a ridiculous comparison.

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