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Everything you said doesn't dispute the above comment and agrees with its core premise:

"In terms of model improvement, yes synthetic data can help. In terms of the arms race? No. True examples provide knowledge that is unique. "

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I was rather commenting on the first part implying that training a neural network with the statistical distribution that comes out of a GAN or VAE does not add value beyond that generative model capabilities.

I do not agree on that because as I explained, with domain knowledge it is very much possible to shape the data generated for augmented learning - beyond the plain statistical variations of GAN and similar, which are obviously of very limited value in training.