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MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding

Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We report three findings that challenge prevailing assumptions about how these systems process and integrate visual information. First, Frontier models readily generate detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces, including pathology-biased clinical findings, for images never provided; we

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Published: 23 March 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Healthcare
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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