raghu@dark-factory :~/kb/goodharts-law $ cat

Goodhart's law

When a proxy metric or benchmark becomes the optimization target it stops reflecting the real capability it was meant to measure, the mechanism behind inflated AI claims.

grounded in: latest AI/tech trends: AI-vendor trust & skepticism theme (an AI lab publicly called out for overselling its claims) plus the doctrine's insistence on grounded, non-confabulated metrics of the loop's

Connected concepts

Reward hacking, Benchmark contamination, AI washing, Evals & benchmarks

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