[ SLANG ][ AI ][ NOUN ]
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.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Once the eval cheating came out, the entire published benchmark result had to be retracted."
LORE & 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.
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Related To:Benchmark TheftEval Gaming
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