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Building a Multimodal AI Application That Actually Uses Its Inputs

A model that accepts an image is not the same as a model that uses one. A working guide to the decisions that separate the two: API or adapter, what the training pairs must contain, how to test for the unimodal shortcut, and what the tokens actually cost.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 18 min read

A rank of drive caddies holding successive dataset generations in a low storage array, with an ingest caddy of human-authored source data caught half-seated in the near slot, its latch still standing open

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Training on Your Own Output: Synthetic Data and What It Does to a Distribution

A starter culture is a population propagated from itself. It runs indefinitely if it is fed and managed, and it drifts or dies if it is only ever fed its own unmanaged output. Synthetic training data behaves the same way.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 8, 2026 · 19 min read

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