Position: Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data

Pablo Villalobos, Anson Ho, J. Sevilla, T. Besiroglu, Lennart Heim +1 more
2/12/2026

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@article{villalobos2026position,
  title  = {Position: Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data},
  author = {Pablo Villalobos and Anson Ho and J. Sevilla and T. Besiroglu and Lennart Heim and Marius Hobbhahn},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:8e7bb8e1c024bdc6b3d7ac91a45f5253e4b0cad9},
  journal = {ICML 2024 2024}
}

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