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by mshake2 1243 days ago
>Argument from ignorance, also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true.[0]

Why should we assume that the training set includes the answer key in the absence of evidence?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

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We know that the training set is large and non public, and that answer keys are generally available and ML likes to output exact answers when it's been trained on the questions.

It's significantly more likely that a model outputting the right answer was trained in that answer than not