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by sangfroid_bio 2186 days ago
There was a scandal a few years back when a Kaggle team did something simar with ML. They were treating the competition as a black box and optimising for the unknown dataset instead of actually building better AI algorithms.
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It goes back way further than that, the incidents that I am recalling involved academic teams and I think ImageNet. It happened quite a few times.