Making Friends with AI

AI-Generated Synthetic Data

Explained the best possible way: with cats!

Cassie Kozyrkov
4 min readJul 21, 2023

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Why is AI-generated synthetic data all the rage these days? In this article, I’ll explain my favorite way: with cats!

Let’s say I want to train a cat-not-cat classifier from scratch, but I only have one photo to work with:

The author’s cat, Huxley.

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