I came across this new finetuned model based on Openchat 3.5 which is apparently trained used Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF).
https://huggingface.co/berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha
Check out this tweet: https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1729253715549602071
Yeah I dont think authors are intentionally bullshitting or intentionally doing “benchmark cosmetics”, but maybe it’s more lack of knowledge on whats going on in terms of (most of) benchmarks and their the image that has become ruined in the meantime.