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Contamination and test freshness

Audit AI benchmark claims before you buy. Lesson 2, 18 min.

Contamination means that benchmark content, or content close to it, was in the data a model learned from. Research on contamination shows that models can sometimes recover benchmark-specific content. Contamination is not the same as saturation. Both can raise scores without proof that the skill gene…

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