That's the thing about machine learning models. You can't always control what their optimizing. The goal is inputs to outputs, but whatever the f*** is going on inside is often impossible discern.

This is dressing it up under some sort of expectation of competence. The word scheming is a lot easier to deal with than just s*****. The former means that it's smart and needs to be rained in. The latter means it's not doing its job particularly well, and the purveyors don't want you to think that.