Derek Bridge wrote today: “You’ve heard about hallucinations. Now hear about mirages. Multimodal models may reason and answer questions about images that are not supplied.” He refers to this article, which states: “In summary, we show that multimodal AI systems can appear to see when they do not, reason about images that were never provided, and achieve high benchmark scores without genuine
visual access.” Link
AI Mirages
March 30, 2026 · decisionmanagementcommunity