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Elon Musk says AI has already gobbled up all human-produced data to train itself and now relies on hallucination-prone synthetic data

AI takes an immense amount of resources—from endless water to an estimated $1 trillion worth of investor dollars—but Elon Musk warned the technology has already run out of its primary training resource: human-created data.

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  1. Kimberly on January 11, 2025 at 1:13 pm

    Here’s an idea, why don’t they wait until more data is naturally collected, or something like that? Take a break.
    This article didn’t clearly state if it’s a worldwide shortage or country by country…

    • Brett on January 11, 2025 at 2:20 pm

      Hi Kimberley,
      IMP, a common sense approach comes a poor second to the revenue cashcow of the AI information spewing juggernaut.
      It’s going to get really interesting (or really frightening real quick) if Elon’s statements are proven to be prophetic.

      • Nei on January 12, 2025 at 2:57 am

        People who are in the know have been talking about this problem for years already. The fact that Musk is saying this out loud to the news reporters only means that he’s given up on fixing the issue and is trying to use the information to weigh down his competition, of which OpenAI has been particularly boyant up to this point.

  2. bstv on January 12, 2025 at 10:44 pm

    it doesn’t sound like Practice. Why would you allow AI to come up with its own data the train itself? And how Would you prevent a Lord of the flies Scenario

  3. brad on January 12, 2025 at 10:45 pm

    I am not a spammer. It is a legitimate question. How would you prevent AI When it teaches itself from not turning into a Lord of the flies scenario

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