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arxiv: 2502.14296 · v5 · pith:RGERRQACnew · submitted 2025-02-20 · 💻 cs.CY

On the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models: Guideline, Assessment, and Perspective

Yue Huang , Chujie Gao , Siyuan Wu , Haoran Wang , Xiangqi Wang , Yujun Zhou , Yanbo Wang , Jiayi Ye
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Generative foundation models gain a dynamic benchmarking platform and guiding principles for trustworthiness assessment.

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The paper systematically reviews global AI governance laws, policies, industry practices, and standards to derive a set of guiding principles for generative foundation models through multidisciplinary collaboration. It introduces TrustGen as a dynamic benchmarking platform that uses modular components to adaptively evaluate trustworthiness across text-to-image, large language, and vision-language models. The evaluation reveals significant progress in trustworthiness alongside persistent challenges, particularly in balancing utility with trustworthiness for different applications. The authors provide a discussion of challenges and future directions, releasing a toolkit to support community advancement toward safer GenFMs.

Core claim

By analyzing global AI regulations and standards, the authors establish guiding principles for GenFMs and create TrustGen, a dynamic platform with modular components for metadata curation, test case generation, and contextual variation, which allows iterative assessments that identify both advancements and ongoing issues in trustworthiness while considering trade-offs with model utility.

What carries the argument

TrustGen, a dynamic benchmarking platform with modular components for adaptive trustworthiness evaluation across multiple generative model types and dimensions.

If this is right

  • Trustworthiness can be evaluated dynamically rather than through static benchmarks.
  • Trade-offs between model utility and trustworthiness must be considered for downstream applications.
  • Persistent challenges in GenFM trustworthiness require ongoing research and adaptation.
  • A strategic roadmap can guide future development of trustworthy generative models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If adopted widely, the principles could inform international AI policy alignment.
  • The modular structure of TrustGen could be applied to emerging generative technologies beyond those tested.
  • Developers might use the toolkit to iteratively improve models before deployment in sensitive areas.

Load-bearing premise

The multidisciplinary guiding principles capture all essential aspects of trustworthiness without significant omissions or irresolvable conflicts with model utility, and the dynamic evaluation methods do not introduce new biases.

What would settle it

Finding a generative model that passes TrustGen assessments with high scores but demonstrates untrustworthy behavior, such as generating harmful content or biased outputs, in a real critical application would falsify the framework's reliability.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2502.14296 by Andy Zou, Anka Reuel, Bo Li, Bryan Hooi Kuen-Yew, Caiming Xiong, Chaowei Xiao, Chujie Gao, Dawn Song, Dongping Chen, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Furong Huang, Han Bao, Haoran Wang, Heng Ji, Hongyang Zhang, Hongzhi Yin, Huan Sun, Huan Zhang, Huaxiu Yao, Jaehong Yoon, Jianfeng Gao, Jian Pei, Jiawen Shi, Jiayi Ye, Jieyu Zhang, Jieyu Zhao, Kaijie Zhu, Kai Shu, Kehan Guo, Lichao Sun, Max Lamparth, Michael Backes, Mohit Bansal, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Nitesh V. Chawla, Nouha Dziri, Or Cohen Sasson, Philip S. Yu, Pin-Yu Chen, Prasanna Sattigeri, Qihui Zhang, Ranjay Krishna, Ruoxi Chen, Siyuan Wu, Swabha Swayamdipta, Taiwei Shi, Tianrui Guan, Tianyi Zhou, Weijia Shi, Xiang Li, Xiangliang Zhang, Xiangqi Wang, Xiuying Chen, Xiyang Hu, Yanbo Wang, Yiwei Li, Yuan Li, Yue Huang, Yuexing Hao, Yue Zhao, Yujun Zhou, Yu Su, Zhaoyi Liu, Zhengzhong Tu, Zhihao Jia, Zhize Li.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Milestones of trustworthy generative foundation models from Oct. 2022 to Jan. 2025. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Left: The progression of GenFMs from untrustworthy (with risks like privacy leakage and misuse) to trustworthy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Three contributions of this paper: A standardized set of guidelines for trustworthy GenFMS, dynamic evaluation on the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Overall performance (trustworthiness score) of text-to-image models. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Overall performance (trustworthiness score) of large language models. “Advanced.” means advanced AI risk. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Overall performance (trustworthiness score) of vision-language models. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Approaches to ensure the trustworthiness of generative models across different corporations. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: An overview of TrustGen, a dynamic benchmark system, incorporating three key components: a metadata curator, a test case builder, and a contextual variator. It evaluates the trustworthiness of three categories of generative foundation models (GenFMs): text-to-image models, large language models, and vision-language models across seven trustworthy dimensions with a broad set of metrics to ensure thorough an… view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Overview of dynamic benchmark engine for truthfulness within T2I models. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Truthfulness in T2I models. All mainstream T2I models underperform in truthfulness, with pro￾prietary model Dall-E 3 showing the best performance. In evaluat￾ing image generation accuracy relative to user queries, Dall-E 3 achieves the highest truthfulness score, successfully incorporat￾ing more entities and attributes compared to other open-source models. However, all models struggle with complex prompts… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Image description generation for T2I models evaluation on safety, robustness, fairness, and privacy. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The safety score of each model. Result Analysis. In [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: The fairness score of each model. Benchmark Setting. Our evaluation is about giving a piece of image description with an anonymized group entity (as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: CLIPScore between the image and description of each model, original and modified represent the values before and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Dynamic data collection for hallucination evaluation is conducted using a web retrieval agent. QA pairs are sourced [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Performance of LLMs across differ￾ent hallucination benchmark tasks. (2) Evaluation Method. For QA task, we employ the LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm to assess the LLM’s output against the gold answer. Given the diverse range of responses generated by LLMs, traditional metrics like exact match (EM) and F1 scores may not be suitable for evaluation. Sim￾ilarly, for fact-checking (FC) task, we adopt the LLM-as-judg… view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Performance visualization of all three types of sycophancy evaluations is presented. The left figure displays the results [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: The combined honest rate in different categories. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Evaluation of LLMs on maintaining honesty alone compared to both honesty and helpfulness combined. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Jailbreak dataset generation pipeline. supports multi-prefix usage, and seamlessly enhances existing jailbreaks—exposing alignment’s vulnerability to novel prompts. (b) Jailbreak Defense. Various studies are focusing on jailbreak defense [796, 761, 797, 798]. Xie et al. [799] and Phute et al. [800] use an easy self-evaluation method to find potential harm in input queries. A recent study utilize a seconda… view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: The performance of LLMs in jailbreak evaluation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p047_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: The distribution of toxicity scores across various models in a toxicity evaluation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p048_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Average toxicity score of different LLMs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p048_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Exaggerated safety generation pipeline. Definition Exaggerated Safety refers to a characteristic of some generative models where they exhibit an overly cautious approach, leading them to reject or avoid responding to harmless queries. To evaluate the exaggerated safety in current LLMs, XSTest comprises 250 safe prompts across ten prompt types that well-calibrated models should not refuse to comply with [8… view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: The RtA (Refuse-to-Answer) rates of various models in an exaggerated safety evaluation. The full RtA represents the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p050_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Fairness dataset construction pipeline. 6.4.1 Stereotype Stereotypes embedded in LLMs present a significant challenge to ensuring unbiased and fair outputs. For instance, a recent report shows LLMs have strong stereotypical associations between female names, and words such as "family," "children," and "husband" conform to traditional gender roles [918]. A central aspect of achieving fairness is addressing… view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: Win rate distribution before and after perturbation. The original represents before perturbation, adversarial represents [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p061_29.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 30. Figure 30: Crafted privacy questions examples for various aspects. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p062_30.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 31. Figure 31: Overview of the pipeline for generating malicious queries using web-browsing agent. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p062_31.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 31. Figure 31: (a) An LLM-powered data crafter identifies scenarios from online sources related to people and organizations, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p063_31.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 32. Figure 32: Dynamic dataset construction pipeline of machine ethics. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p065_32.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 33. Figure 33: Performance of LLMs on ETHICS dataset [400] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p066_33.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 34. Figure 34: Dynamic dataset construction pipeline for advanced AI risks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p068_34.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 35. Figure 35: Example of the dataset for AI advanced risks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p068_35.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 36. Figure 36: Evaluation of VLMs on truthfulness and hallucina [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p072_36.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 37. Figure 37: Jailbreak methods used in the evaluation of VLMs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p074_37.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 38. Figure 38: RtA (Refuse-to-Answer) Rate of 10 VLMs under 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p075_38.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 39. Figure 39: Stereotype & disparagement dataset construction pipeline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p076_39.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 40. Figure 40: There are Large performance variation exists across models. We can observe that accuracy scores vary widely, with Gemini-1.5-Pro achieving 91.71% and Llama-3.2-90B-V scoring only 3.08%. Gemini and Claude series consistently show high accuracy, suggesting they benefit from targeted fairness optimizations. In contrast, models like Llama-3.2-90B-V struggle, likely due to less focused training data or design.… view at source ↗
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Figure 40. Figure 40: Evaluation of VLMs on correct identification alone compared to both correct identification and rejection combined. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p078_40.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 41. Figure 41: Robustness scores of VLMs under perturbations in different modalities. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p080_41.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 42. Figure 42: Win rate distribution of VLMs before and after perturbation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p080_42.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 43. Figure 43: Evaluation of VLMs on ethics accuracy. Result Analysis. We show the ethical performance of VLMs based on their accuracy in moral judgment tasks in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p083_43.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 44. Figure 44: Dynamic requirements of trustworthiness in different downstream applications, where [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p093_44.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 45. Figure 45: Ambiguities in the safety of attacks and defenses. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p095_45.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 46. Figure 46: Interdisciplinary influence of generative models. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p098_46.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 47. Figure 47: Visualization of model responses to ethical dilemmas, with each scenario represented by three squares: the middle [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p099_47.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 48. Figure 48: The impact of trustworthiness in different domains. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p100_48.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 49. Figure 49: Benefits and potential untrustworthy behaviors from alignment process. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p101_49.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 50. Figure 50: The root causes of LLM safety inconsistencies and potential improvement strategies. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p103_50.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 51. Figure 51: Discussion on Advanced AI Risks about GenFMs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p108_51.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 52. Figure 52: This figure serves as a guide to various personal information aspects of privacy for web retrieval. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p219_52.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 53. Figure 53: This figure presents all the organizational information privacy aspects used. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p220_53.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 54. Figure 54: Examples of various image perturbation types. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p226_54.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 55. Figure 55: Human annotation for text [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p231_55.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 56. Figure 56: Human annotation for image. 231 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p231_56.png] view at source ↗
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Generative Foundation Models (GenFMs) have emerged as transformative tools. However, their widespread adoption raises critical concerns regarding trustworthiness across dimensions. This paper presents a comprehensive framework to address these challenges through three key contributions. First, we systematically review global AI governance laws and policies from governments and regulatory bodies, as well as industry practices and standards. Based on this analysis, we propose a set of guiding principles for GenFMs, developed through extensive multidisciplinary collaboration that integrates technical, ethical, legal, and societal perspectives. Second, we introduce TrustGen, the first dynamic benchmarking platform designed to evaluate trustworthiness across multiple dimensions and model types, including text-to-image, large language, and vision-language models. TrustGen leverages modular components--metadata curation, test case generation, and contextual variation--to enable adaptive and iterative assessments, overcoming the limitations of static evaluation methods. Using TrustGen, we reveal significant progress in trustworthiness while identifying persistent challenges. Finally, we provide an in-depth discussion of the challenges and future directions for trustworthy GenFMs, which reveals the complex, evolving nature of trustworthiness, highlighting the nuanced trade-offs between utility and trustworthiness, and consideration for various downstream applications, identifying persistent challenges and providing a strategic roadmap for future research. This work establishes a holistic framework for advancing trustworthiness in GenAI, paving the way for safer and more responsible integration of GenFMs into critical applications. To facilitate advancement in the community, we release the toolkit for dynamic evaluation.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper systematically reviews global AI governance laws, policies, industry practices, and standards to derive a set of guiding principles for Generative Foundation Models (GenFMs) via multidisciplinary collaboration integrating technical, ethical, legal, and societal views. It introduces TrustGen as the first dynamic benchmarking platform with modular components (metadata curation, test case generation, contextual variation) for adaptive evaluation of trustworthiness across text-to-image, large language, and vision-language models. The platform is applied to assess current models, identifying progress and persistent challenges. The work discusses challenges, future directions, utility-trustworthiness trade-offs, and downstream application considerations, while releasing the evaluation toolkit.

Significance. If the policy-derived principles hold and TrustGen functions as a modular, adaptive platform without introducing new biases, the work offers a constructive synthesis that can serve as a reference framework for GenFM trustworthiness. The explicit release of the open toolkit is a clear strength, enabling community-driven iterative assessments and reproducibility. The multidisciplinary derivation from external policies provides a grounded starting point rather than ad-hoc invention.

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  1. [TrustGen evaluation and results section] The section reporting outcomes from TrustGen evaluations (revealing 'significant progress' and 'persistent challenges') lacks detailed methodology, validation steps, or error analysis for the benchmark results. This undermines the ability to evaluate the reliability of the empirical claims about model trustworthiness, even if the platform design itself is the primary contribution.
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  1. [Abstract] The abstract contains minor repetitive phrasing in its closing sentences regarding the discussion of challenges and future directions.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and positive recommendation. We address the single major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [TrustGen evaluation and results section] The section reporting outcomes from TrustGen evaluations (revealing 'significant progress' and 'persistent challenges') lacks detailed methodology, validation steps, or error analysis for the benchmark results. This undermines the ability to evaluate the reliability of the empirical claims about model trustworthiness, even if the platform design itself is the primary contribution.

    Authors: We agree that additional methodological detail would improve the paper. While the primary contribution is the design of the modular, adaptive TrustGen platform (metadata curation, test case generation, and contextual variation), the reported evaluations are intended to illustrate its application. In the revision we will expand the relevant section with: (i) a precise description of how test cases were generated and sampled for the three model categories, (ii) the validation steps employed (including any automated checks and human review protocols), and (iii) an explicit error analysis covering potential sources of variance, coverage limitations, and statistical measures used to support the statements of “significant progress” and “persistent challenges.” revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper is a constructive synthesis paper whose central contributions are (1) a review of external global AI governance laws/policies from governments and regulators, (2) a set of guiding principles derived from that review plus multidisciplinary collaboration, and (3) the design and release of the modular TrustGen benchmarking platform. No equations, fitted parameters, quantitative predictions, or uniqueness theorems appear. No load-bearing step reduces by construction to a self-citation, self-definition, or renamed empirical pattern. The derivation chain rests on external policy documents and explicit design choices rather than internal closure, satisfying the criteria for a self-contained, non-circular framework paper.

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The framework rests on the domain assumption that trustworthiness decomposes into evaluable dimensions and that dynamic test generation can overcome limitations of static benchmarks without introducing unaccounted biases. No free parameters or invented physical entities are introduced.

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  • domain assumption Trustworthiness of generative foundation models can be decomposed into multiple independent dimensions that are amenable to modular evaluation.
    The TrustGen design and guiding principles are structured around separate dimensions such as safety and fairness.
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  • TrustGen no independent evidence
    purpose: Dynamic benchmarking platform enabling adaptive trustworthiness assessment
    New platform introduced to address limitations of static methods.

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