AI Developers Turn to Synthetic Data as Original Content Dries Up – Decrypt

As AI models consume the internet’s free content, a looming crisis is emerging: What happens when there’s nothing left to train on?

A recent Copyleaks report revealed that DeepSeek, a Chinese AI model, often produces responses nearly identical to ChatGPT, raising concerns that it was trained on OpenAI outputs.

That’s led some to suspect the era of “low-hanging fruit” in AI development may be over.

In December, Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged this reality, warning that AI…