{
  "id": 6328,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04465v2",
  "title": "The Topology of Multimodal Fusion: Why Current Architectures Fail at Creative Cognition",
  "summary": "This paper identifies a structural limitation in current multimodal AI architectures that is topological rather than parametric. Contrastive alignment (CLIP), cross-attention fusion (GPT-4V/Gemini), and diffusion-based generation share a common geometric prior -- modal separability -- which we term contact topology. The argument rests on three pillars with philosophy as the generative center. The philosophical pillar reinterprets Wittgenstein's saying/showing distinction as a problem rather than",
  "authors": "Xiujiang Tan",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment",
  "orgs": "google",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-06T06:23:55.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:24.291Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/6328",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04465v2",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}