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Synthetic Data

Artificially generated data used for training AI models.

Definition

Artificially generated data used for training AI models. Can be created by other AI models, simulations, or procedural generation. Useful when real data is scarce, private, or biased. Increasingly used to train and evaluate models, but risks introducing its own biases and distribution issues.

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