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Musk, during a livestreamed conversation with Mark Penn, chairman of Stagwell, emphasized the necessity to turn to &#8216;synthetic&#8217; data\u2014AI-generated content\u2014to continue developing new systems. This approach is already being used by major tech companies like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI to fine-tune their AI models. However, Musk warned of the potential dangers associated with synthetic data, such as the generation of &#8216;hallucinations&#8217; or inaccurate outputs. The growing reliance on synthetic data could lead to &#8216;model collapse,&#8217; where the quality of AI outputs diminishes. 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