It's like a cargo cult version of bootstrapping or monte carlo methods.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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Can't see how this doesn't defeat the purpose, if you have a mock data generator of sufficient fidelity you already have a well-defined mechanism to describe the data, shouldn't you be using that instead of developing a new model to capture the characteristics of the model that creates those characteristics?
"synthetic data" is just signal-shaped noise in strictest terms
Grok, is this ethical?
yeh
“i have a theoretical doctorate in medicine”.
“I have approximate knowledge of many things.”
If AI slop is an insult to life itself, then this shit is an insult to knowledge. Any paper that actually uses "synthetic data" should be immediately retracted (and ideally destroyed altogether), but it'll probably take years before the poison is purged from the scientific record.
Artificial intelligence is the destruction of knowledge for profit. It has no place in any scientific endeavor. (How you managed to maintain a calm, detached tone when talking about this shit, I will never know.)