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There might be a plateau coming but I’m not sure that will be the reason.

It seems counterintuitive but there is some research suggesting that using synthetic data might actually be productive.

I think there's probably a distinction to be made between deliberate, careful use of synthetic data, as opposed to blindly scraping 1PB of LLM generated SEO spam and force-feeding it into a new model. Maybe the former is useful, but the latter... probably not.

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