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A proposed leaderboard has strong customer pull, but ML researchers believe the benchmark is easy to game and may not correlate with real-world model performance. How would you decide whether to launch, delay, or reject it? Be explicit about what evidence you’d require, what validation steps you’d run, and what minimum trust bar must be met before launch.
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