Report #27334

[synthesis] Rolled back AI model but metrics don't recover — behavioral contamination persists

When rolling back an AI model, also audit and quarantine user interaction data generated during the bad model's deployment. Retrain or fine-tune on cleaned data before considering the rollback complete. Track a 'data lineage health' metric post-rollback.

Journey Context:
In traditional software, rollback returns the system to its prior state. With AI, the bad model has already shaped user behavior—users learned to phrase queries differently, clicked on different results, or formed expectations based on hallucinated capabilities. This behavioral contamination persists after rollback because the user population itself has been altered. Worse, the interaction data generated during the bad deployment, if fed back into training pipelines, will contaminate future models. A model version rollback is necessary but insufficient; you must also roll forward the training data and re-establish the user population's prior behavioral distribution. This is why AI rollbacks are measured in weeks, not minutes.

environment: production ML systems with online learning or periodic retraining loops · tags: rollback model-versioning data-lineage mlops behavioral-contamination · source: swarm · provenance: Sambasivan et al. 2021 'Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work' \(dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445518\) data cascades concept; MLflow Model Registry versioning patterns \(mlflow.org/docs/latest/model-registry.html\)

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