Position: Every Ground Truth is a Human Construction, not an Objective Truth

arXiv:2607.09668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ground truth datasets play a fundamental role as reference values in the training and evaluation of machine learning models. This position paper argues that ground truths are not neutral objective measurements that are naturally given, but instead that they are constructed by arrangements of humans and technologies. We argue that the ML community will benefit from articulating and discussing these often invisible or unreported choices and acknowled...