Synthetic data getting serious for biometrics training

Synthetic data created by artificial intelligence systems, for AI systems is a growing market, as general adversarial networks (GANs) are used to train facial recognition and other biometric algorithms. The Washington Post profiles a company called Yuty, and the path it took to providing synthetic facial datasets, and reports that it is one of around 50 startups in the space. The Post notes that Gartner has forecast 60 percent of all AI training data will be synthetic by 2024. Amazon recently revealed that it relied heavily on synthetic data to train its palm biometrics. In a similar vein, OpenAI's DALL-E machine learning tool has updated a policy to allow its users to share synthetic facial images, after the tool's developers built in mechanisms to prevent its use in creating deepfakes, according to Vice.