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title: '**Synthetic data**'
description: >-
  **Synthetic data** is data that is produced artificially — generated by a
  model, simulation, or other process — rather than gathered from real-world
  events, and used as a source for training or testing AI models. In the
  channel's captured material, the term appears in discussions of how model
  architectures beyond standard text-prediction LLMs are trained.
  [^8bd084ce-8d16-5f81-895a-fc2bc3b5d174@44]
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/synthetic-data-f3b0cdc3a5b8
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/synthetic-data-f3b0cdc3a5b8.md
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updated: '2026-10-23T22:12:35.346Z'
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# \*\*Synthetic data\*\*

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/synthetic-data-f3b0cdc3a5b8

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Synthetic data** is data that is produced artificially — generated by a model, simulation, or other process — rather than gathered from real-world events, and used as a source for training or testing AI models. In the channel's captured material, the term appears in discussions of how model architectures beyond standard text-prediction LLMs are trained. [^8bd084ce-8d16-5f81-895a-fc2bc3b5d174@44]

In this channel's material, **synthetic data** comes up in the context of *how new model architectures get trained* — a theme explored in “Beyond LLMs: New AI Architectures and Capabilities.” [^8bd084ce-8d16-5f81-895a-fc2bc3b5d174@44]Models that differ from standard text-prediction LLMs — reasoning-optimized models, energy-based models, and generative world engines — change *how* output is produced, and that change shapes what kind of data can meaningfully teach them. Exploring where that data comes from, including data produced artificially rather than collected from the real world, helps clarify which architecture is the right tool for which job. [^8bd084ce-8d16-5f81-895a-fc2bc3b5d174@44]