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What is training data?

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Everything the AI learned from.

Training data is all the text (and images, and more) an AI studied while it was being built. It's where the AI's “knowledge” comes from — a bit like everything a person read growing up. This is also why an AI can have a cut-off date, or blind spots: if something wasn't in its training data, it may not know it.