Model evaluations increasingly used for 'quality laundering', claims expert
cocktailpeanut · x · 2026-08-18
Cocktailpeanut argues that AI model evaluations are increasingly being used for 'quality laundering'. This practice involves selecting plausible proxy metrics for model quality and using performance on those metrics as proof of superiority, without establishing how strongly those proxies correlate with what users actually want.
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