AI evals are increasingly used for 'quality laundering'
cocktailpeanut · x · 2026-08-18
Developer cocktailpeanut argues that AI model evaluations are increasingly used for quality laundering: pick a plausible proxy for quality, cite performance on it as proof the model is better, without ever establishing how strongly that proxy correlates with what people actually want — a pointed critique of benchmark-driven model marketing.
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