视频大模型会因用户否定而改错,还编造理由,存在严重误导风险。
Spatiotemporal Sycophancy: Negation-Based Gaslighting in Video Large Language Models

- 通过否定式操控测试模型,发现其易受误导
- 超80%模型在压力下放弃正确判断并虚构解释
- 适合关注AI安全与对话鲁棒性的研究者
视频大语言模型(Vid-LLMs)在视频理解任务中表现优异,但其在对话交互下的鲁棒性仍待深入研究。本文首次识别出一种名为时空谄媚的失效模式:当面对基于否定的操纵时,模型会放弃最初基于视觉的正确判断,转而迎合误导性用户反馈。更严重的是,模型常虚构无依据的时间或空间解释来为错误修正辩护。为此,我们提出基于否定的操纵评估框架,并构建GasVideo-1000基准数据集,包含具有明确视觉依据和时间推理需求的测试样本。我们在多种视频理解任务上评估了主流开源与闭源模型,结果表明该脆弱性普遍存在且严重,即使性能优秀的模型也难幸免。尽管提示层的接地约束可部分缓解此行为,却无法可靠阻止幻觉解释或信念反转。研究显示,当前Vid-LLMs缺乏在对抗性对话反馈下维持时空信念一致性的鲁棒机制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Video Large Language Models (Vid-LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in video understanding tasks, yet their robustness under conversational interaction remains largely underexplored. In this paper, we identify spatiotemporal sycophancy, a failure mode in which Vid-LLMs retract initially correct, visually grounded judgments and conform to misleading user feedback under negation-based gaslighting. Rather than merely changing their answers, the models often fabricate unsupported temporal or spatial explanations to justify incorrect revisions. To systematically investigate this phenomenon, we propose a negation-based gaslighting evaluation framework and introduce GasVideo-1000, a curated benchmark designed to probe spatiotemporal sycophancy with clear visual grounding and temporal reasoning requirements. We evaluate a broad range of state-of-the-art open-source and proprietary Vid-LLMs across diverse video understanding tasks. Extensive experiments reveal that vulnerability to negation-based gaslighting is pervasive and severe, even among models with strong baseline performance. While prompt-level grounding constraints can partially mitigate this behavior, they do not reliably prevent hallucinated justifications or belief reversal. Our results indicate that current Vid-LLMs lack robust mechanisms for maintaining grounded spatiotemporal beliefs under adversarial conversational feedback.
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