Claim LD06-SL-C17 (v1.0)
The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index found that the average transparency score of major AI developers fell from 58 in 2024 to 40 out of 100, and that no company adequately disclosed how far its training data overlap with the evaluations it is tested on; the authors note that changed indicators and companies may contribute to the decline.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (PREPRINT) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- A like-for-like trend (indicators, companies and reporting mechanisms changed)
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Wan, Klyman, Kapoor, Maslej, Longpre, Xiong, Liang & Bommasani, “The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index,” arXiv:2512.10169, December 2025
- Source type (field 7)
- PREPRINT (as printed: “Preprint”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (Stanford-led, with Berkeley, Princeton, MIT and others)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- RAPIDLY_MATURING (as printed: “RAPIDLY MATURING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-15
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD06-SL-C17--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Wan, Klyman, Kapoor, Maslej, Longpre, Xiong, Liang & Bommasani, “The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index,” arXiv:2512.10169, December 2025” → SRC-SL-WAN-ET-AL-FMTI-2025-ARXIV-2512-10169--v1.0 — Wan, Klyman, Kapoor, Maslej, Longpre, Xiong, Liang & Bommasani, “The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index,” arXiv:2512.10169, December 2025; class PREPRINT (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD06-SL-C17 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index found that the average transparency score of major AI developers fell from 58 in 2024 to 40 out of 100, and that no company adequately disclosed how far its training data overlap with the evaluations it is tested on; the authors note that changed indicators and companies may contribute to the decline. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | B — Leaderboards, judges and disclosure | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | RAPIDLY MATURING | states: RAPIDLY_MATURING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Wan, Klyman, Kapoor, Maslej, Longpre, Xiong, Liang & Bommasani, “The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index,” arXiv:2512.10169, December 2025 | source_ids: SRC-SL-WAN-ET-AL-FMTI-2025-ARXIV-2512-10169 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Preprint | classes: PREPRINT |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (Stanford-led, with Berkeley, Princeton, MIT and others) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | 13 foundation-model developers, 2025 | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Indicator-based scoring from company reports and public information | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | 13 companies | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Each company’s flagship foundation model | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | The 2024 index | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | Average 58 in 2024 and 40 in 2025; IBM 95, xAI and Midjourney 14; seven of nine companies scored in both years fell; limited insight into evaluation methods and little detail for external reproduction; no company adequately discloses train–test overlap | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Developer disclosure about models, including how they were evaluated | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | A like-for-like trend (indicators, companies and reporting mechanisms changed) | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: PREPRINT · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Indicator choice and weighting by the authors; six companies did not submit reports and were scored from public information | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | The 2024 rise to 58 depended on developers reporting on themselves | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | Global / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not analysed in this claim | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-06, D4b | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | A like-for-like comparison on unchanged indicators | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-15 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-06 (LIVING_DEBATE); D4b (SUB_AREA)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 3c6098ac5be2b9decea1f7b0469cd80d43d710121c3140733cc71d2c559aa043.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C17 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-06 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-06 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 17 — LD06-SL-C17” SHA-256
d675bfa1687feab1505924fc9acb36caea36ec8a571d547c7e9a7ec4df00aff2; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD06-SL-C17--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C17 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-06 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C17 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-06 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-06 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-WAN-ET-AL-FMTI-2025-ARXIV-2512-10169--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 17 — LD06-SL-C17 cites "Wan, Klyman, Kapoor, Maslej, Longpre, Xiong, Liang & Bommasani, “The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index,” arXiv:2512.10169, December 2025"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-WAN-ET-AL-FMTI-2025-ARXIV-2512-10169--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Wan, Klyman, Kapoor, Maslej, Longpre, Xiong, Liang & Bommasani, “The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index,” arXiv:2512.10169, December 2025".