Elon Musk says AI has already gobbled up all human-produced data to train itself and now relies on hallucination-prone synthetic data

Elon Musk puts his finger on his chin in a thinking face (Credit: Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)

• Artificial intelligence relies on vast amounts of data to train itself. But Elon Musk says models have already run out of human-created data, and have turned to AI-generated information to teach itself.

AI takes an immense amount of resources—from endless water to an estimated $1 trillion worth of investor dollars—but Elon Musk warned the technology has already run out of its primary training resource: human-created data.