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AI Faces Data Wall as Text Supply Nears End

8/9/2026

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  • China’s AI sector faces a looming shortage of high-quality training data, a potential bottleneck.
  • Epoch AI predicts the global supply of publicly available human-generated text could run out within six years.
  • OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy warns a “data wall” may appear by decade’s end.
  • U.S. firms are spending heavily to mine offline human knowledge, prompting a fierce ethical debate among researchers.