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Yes, in three situations: privacy rules block the release of real training data, a rare failure case appears too infrequently in production data for a model to learn from, or a test environment needs realistic volume without a copy of live records. Generative models can produce artificial records that carry the statistical shape of real ones without carrying real people in them. Two limits decide whether it is worth doing. Synthetic data inherits the biases and the gaps of whatever generated it, so it cannot create signal that was never in the source. And a model trained mostly on synthetic output degrades, which means synthetic records supplement a real dataset rather than replace one. Where the underlying problem is an unreliable pipeline rather than scarce data, the fix is data engineering for AI instead.

A generative AI application produces new output rather than a label, a score, or a prediction. Text, structured records, images, audio, video, or code. The practical test is whether several different outputs could all be correct. If exactly one answer is right, you have a classification, extraction, or forecasting problem, and a generative model is the wrong tool for it.

Five situations, and we turn projects down in all of them. When the job is a decision rather than a generation, because scoring and routing belong to a classifier that gives you a threshold to tune. When nobody has capacity to review the output, because the system moves the bottleneck instead of removing it. When nobody can define a good output, since two experts disagreeing without being able to say why is a specification problem no model solves. When the output must be exactly correct every time with no review. And when a demo in three weeks at the lowest price is the binding constraint, because an evaluation set, a proof of concept on your data, and a designed review workflow make us slower and more expensive than a vendor shipping quickly. We also do not train foundation models from scratch or run managed GPU clusters.

Usually not, unless the workflow is where you compete or the data cannot leave your environment. A vendor feature costs a fraction of a build and brings its own compliance and review tooling. Two things to check before waiting: whether the roadmap date has slipped before, and whether the vendor version will reach your system of record or stop at their own product boundary. Where it stops short, the thin layer is the answer rather than a full build.

Under the enterprise terms of the major providers you generally own the output, but terms differ on retention, on whether prompts and outputs may be used for training, and on permitted commercial use. Several providers offer copyright indemnity for paid enterprise use with conditions attached, and the conditions are the part that matters. Establish this per provider before the build, because it can rule out a model.

If your output reaches EU users, some of it. Article 50 of the EU AI Act has applied since 2 August 2026 and requires machine-readable marking of synthetic audio, image, video, and text, disclosure that a person is interacting with an AI system, and visible disclosure of deepfakes. Source code, short strings, and standard editing such as spellchecking and translation are exempt; summaries and substantive rewrites are not. Systems already on the EU market before 2 August 2026 have until 2 December 2026 for the marking obligation. This describes the obligation generally and is not legal advice on a specific system.

Partly. The generation step is genuinely useful for interpreting messy documents into structured records, and we run that in production. But the work is dominated by parsing, layout handling, confidence scoring, and exception routing rather than by generation, and it is scored on field-level accuracy against a key. That is Intelligent Document Processing, and treating it as a generative project underestimates it.

Running cost scales with output volume and length rather than with the number of users, which is unlike most software your finance team has budgeted for. Rejected output is paid for and thrown away, so a quality problem appears in the bill before it appears in a complaint. Budget 15 to 20% of build cost annually for evaluation, monitoring, and retuning.

Little, if the system was built for it. Model access sits behind a gateway, the output contract and the evaluation set belong to you rather than to the model, and swapping means running the regression suite and comparing acceptance rate. What breaks portability is prompt logic tuned to one model’s quirks and an evaluation set built after the fact. Assume roughly two model generations inside a normal system lifetime.