What Is Eval Cheating?
6.1BRAINROT SCOREEval Cheating Any deliberate action taken specifically to produce a misleadingly high evaluation score — encompassing benchmark theft, gaming the test's structure, and other intentional manipulations — used as the general umbrella term for dishonest evaluation practices.
Origin:Named directly and plainly by AI labs and researchers as the broad category term covering the full range of deliberate evaluation manipulation, rather than any single specific technique.
First Seen:2025
Peak Era:2025-2026 (AI Labs/Research Era)
Aura Impact:+10 Aura (A Lab Publicly Correcting for Discovered Eval Cheating) / -25 Aura (A Model's Reported Scores Being Fully Discredited by Confirmed Eval Cheating)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"Once the eval cheating came out, the entire published benchmark result had to be retracted."
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