Aaron Meyers and Ana Monroe explore synthetic data—AI-generated customer information that alleviates privacy concerns, accelerates product development, and can prove highly effective for organizations. They also examine the challenges of this approach, including how synthetic data can reinforce organizational dead ends, encourage individual silos over collaboration, and create an overwhelming volume of information that requires additional AI systems to interpret. We ultimately advocate for a balanced strategy that combines synthetic data with traditional human research.

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