69.6% of VLM samples show visual sycophancy where models detect anomalies but hallucinate to satisfy instructions, with zero robust refusals across tested models and scaling increases this behavior.
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To See or To Please: Uncovering Visual Sycophancy and Split Beliefs in VLMs
69.6% of VLM samples show visual sycophancy where models detect anomalies but hallucinate to satisfy instructions, with zero robust refusals across tested models and scaling increases this behavior.