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Position: Privacy Is a Claim, Not a Property of Synthetic Data

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

Synthetic data has become a common component of machine learning research. While widely adopted, its use in privacy-sensitive contexts has quietly shifted from a claim of residual inference risk under stated assumptions to an appearance-based property inferred from data generation itself. In this position paper, we argue that this shift reflects an implicit change in community standards for what counts as sufficient privacy evidence, rather than a misunderstanding of well-established privacy principles. Drawing on an empirical analysis of recent publications across major ML venues, we show tha

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