测试多模态大模型在被否定攻击下的稳定性,发现多数模型会自相矛盾。
Benchmarking Gaslighting Negation Attacks Against Multimodal Large Language Models
- 设计首个针对否定攻击的基准GaslightingBench,覆盖20类场景。
- 主流模型如GPT-4o和Gemini-1.5-flash仍会因否定而改错答案。
- 情感、社会关系等主观领域最脆弱,客观题也出现明显下降。
多模态大语言模型(MLLMs)在跨模态理解与生成任务中表现卓越,但对对话式对抗输入仍显脆弱。本文系统研究了「否定型煤气灯效应」攻击:用户通过否定性话术诱导模型推翻原本正确的回答,并编造理由。我们构建了首个专用基准GaslightingBench,包含来自现有数据集的多选题及20个类别生成的否定提示。在多个主流模型上评估发现,即使先进模型如Gemini-2.5-Pro也易受攻击,尽管闭源模型(如Gemini-1.5-flash、GPT-4o)比开源模型(如Qwen2-VL、LLaVA)更具韧性。类别分析显示,社会关系、图像情绪等主观领域受损最严重,地理等客观领域虽降幅较小,但仍显著。所有模型均无法保持逻辑一致性,暴露出严重的鲁棒性缺陷,为构建更可信的多模态AI提供关键启示。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have exhibited remarkable advancements in integrating different modalities, excelling in complex understanding and generation tasks. Despite their success, MLLMs remain vulnerable to conversational adversarial inputs. In this paper, we systematically study gaslighting negation attacks: a phenomenon where models, despite initially providing correct answers, are persuaded by user-provided negations to reverse their outputs, often fabricating justifications. We conduct extensive evaluations of state-of-the-art MLLMs across diverse benchmarks and observe substantial performance drops when negation is introduced. Notably, we introduce the first benchmark GaslightingBench, specifically designed to evaluate the vulnerability of MLLMs to negation arguments. GaslightingBench consists of multiple-choice questions curated from existing datasets, along with generated negation prompts across 20 diverse categories. Throughout extensive evaluation, we find that proprietary models such as Gemini-1.5-flash and GPT-4o demonstrate better resilience compared to open-source counterparts like Qwen2-VL and LLaVA, though even advanced reasoning-oriented models like Gemini-2.5-Pro remain susceptible. Our category-level analysis further shows that subjective or socially nuanced domains (e.g., Social Relation, Image Emotion) are especially fragile, while more objective domains (e.g., Geography) exhibit relatively smaller but still notable drops. Overall, all evaluated MLLMs struggle to maintain logical consistency under gaslighting negation attack. These findings highlight a fundamental robustness gap and provide insights for developing more reliable and trustworthy multimodal AI systems. Project website: https://yxg1005.github.io/GaslightingNegationAttacks/.
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