Skeptical deep dive confirms Humanity's Last Exam errors; official o3-mini grader marked right answers wrong every time

paul_cal · x · 2026-09-20

paulcal ran a skeptical deep dive into claimed issues with Humanity's Last Exam and confirmed that every question he checked was indeed wrong. In one example, he tested how often the official grader setup (an o3-mini-based HLM grader) followed the answer key — and it marked a correct answer as wrong every single time. The quoted post notes HLE appears to be 50% wrong and questions why nobody caught these errors before publication, undermining confidence in HLE-based frontier model claims.

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