For AI teams
Combining licensed and synthetic data
Short answer
Licensed real records ground synthetic data in reality; synthetic data adds volume and covers rare cases.
Good practice#
- Use real records as seeds and evaluation sets
- Check license terms allow synthetic generation
- Track which data is real versus synthetic
- Evaluate on held-out real data
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