About whether training AI on filtered synthetic data could produce better models.
Has this happened?
Yes 35 (30%)Not sure 50 (43%)No 31 (27%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether training AI on filtered synthetic data could produce better models.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I think you're on the right track with this thought: the obvious use case for models like this is their ability to classify data based on their training. Like almost everyone has immediately thought "AI moderator" as a use case - but the most obvious use is for the AI to moderate it's own training data for the next version.
Once they can do that and produce a productively improved model, then that's really the start of self-improvement.