{"id":238546,"date":"2026-05-03T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/ai-models-are-choking-on-junk-data\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:45:09","slug":"ai-models-are-choking-on-junk-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/ai-models-are-choking-on-junk-data\/","title":{"rendered":"AI models are choking on junk data"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI models are choking on junk data<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/03\/ai-models-are-choking-on-junk-data\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-03 09:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: fortune.com<\/a><\/p>\n

How we get from ChatGPT to humanoid robots relies on one of the most consequential, but least discussed bottlenecks in artificial intelligence \u2013 the quality of the data that we feed these systems to learn from.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thus far, the AI industrial complex has operated on the idea that feeding models more data means smarter models. This worked brilliantly when researchers could simply vacuum up the internet to train large language models. But we\u2019re on the cusp of the next frontier of AI \u2014 physical AI and world models \u2013 systems that will learn and ultimately operate in the\u00a0<\/strong>physical world. Think about the cognition it takes to navigate roads and traffic, fold laundry, or assist in complicated medical surgeries. These all require something that can\u2019t simply be downloaded. It requires rich and multifaceted data from which these world models can learn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s now a potential crisis in motion that could have major implications on the AI movement. If we aren\u2019t able to stem the excess of junk data \u2013 data that isn\u2019t able to move a model forward in development \u2013\u00a0 the entire promise of physical AI and world models may never achieve its full potential.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A big part of the problem is the hunger for data to feed new and better models. AI companies are ravenous for that data, which has spawned a wave of multi-billion dollar AI data startups that provide these services like Scale AI, Surge AI, and Mercor. But catering to those insatiable appetites has produced a bounty of junk data that actually don\u2019t advance AI models at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Junk data is easier to produce, but the data needed for physical AI and world models requires much more time and effort. Because the physical world is very complex, training these models to understand the multi-dimensional world requires significantly more data \u2014 data that is also very hard to get. Machine learning engineers resort to simulating this data, and that requires hours upon hours of virtual reenactments of…<\/p>\n

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