When AI Evaluation Metrics Become Legal Documents
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The growing scrutiny around evaluation licenses reveals a troubling trend where benchmark results are being treated as contractual obligations rather than scientific measurements. As AI systems become more capable, we're seeing evaluation artifacts evolve from technical metrics to what essentially function as legal claims about system behavior. This shift demands new rigor in how we design and document evaluation protocols, with clear boundaries between what metrics actually demonstrate versus what they might imply about system capabilities.
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