Datology AI builds synthetic pretraining data with controllable knowledge cutoff guarantees

josh_wills · x · 2026-10-30

Datology AI highlights a "time-travel" problem in synthetic data: when a model rephrases documents, knowledge cutoff guarantees are lost and the model can introduce information its sources never had — catastrophic for backtesting. Their solution generates synthetic pretraining data with measurable, controllable knowledge cutoff guarantees.

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