FEATURE: Synthetic data – What is it? And can we trust it?

Data Protection Innovation and Artificial Intelligence – Synthetic Data as a Solution - Access Partnership

A key challenge when dealing with training artificial intelligence (AI) models is the ethical use of datasets for training AI models. For example, a number of technology companies investing in AI have faced allegations of improper use of personal data, such as data scraping, in their quest to develop advanced AI models.[1] Similarly, some other companies training their AI have also been reported to use datasets containing pirated copyrighted con…

FEATURE: Synthetic data – What is it? And can we trust it?

Big players in AI are developing synthetic data to fill in the gaps for traffic modeling, trend analysis, autonomous vehicles and more. Today, as Christopher Court-Dobson discovers, this tech is at the center of a growing debate: can we really trust artificially generated facts? It’s 2025 and the data used to construct pictures of our transportation world and predict the future is in high demand. Collected from sensors, cameras, mobile phones an…