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Ontologies of Synthetic Data

What is synthetic data, really? We probe what it means for data to be "real," "generated," or "made up," and how those distinctions shape knowledge claims.

Projects

active ontology · bias · transparency

Synthetic Data — Facts, Representations, and Transparency

A five-year WASP-HS research environment examining how AI-generated synthetic data is produced, deployed, and contested — and what it means for the people and institutions that come to rely on it.