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Seeing Is Not Thinking: Teaching Multimodal Models Where to Look

A model can see the image and still miss the point Inspection is a wonderfully cruel test for AI. Show a multimodal model a product photo, a medical scan, a factory defect, a form, or a dashboard screenshot, and the answer may sound calm, fluent, and technically plausible. The model may even imitate the reasoning style of a stronger teacher model. It may describe objects, infer relationships, and produce the correct-looking sentence. ...

January 18, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina