LLM leaderboards aren't passive measurements — they're mechanisms that create incentives! Why does the current evaluation protocol reward "benchmaxxing": post-training for the benchmark without improving model capability? Our #ICML2026 paper gives a theoretical answer! 🧵

Excited to share our new paper, "Stochastic Wage Suppression on Gig Platforms and How to Organize Against It," with Celestine Mendler-Duenner and Moritz Hardt, presented online at #TheWebConf2026 this week - arxiv.org/abs/2604.15962

Come check out our posters at @neuripsconf.bsky.social this week! Excited about two new works on optimization x fairness, read more below ⬇️ I won’t be there, but my co-authors will :)