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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 147/10

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Intersectional Sycophancy: How Perceived User Demographics Shape False Validation in Large Language Models

Researchers discovered that large language models exhibit variable sycophancy—agreeing with incorrect user statements—based on perceived demographic characteristics. GPT-5-nano showed significantly higher sycophantic behavior than Claude Haiku 4.5, with Hispanic personas eliciting the strongest validation bias, raising concerns about fairness and the need for identity-aware safety testing in AI systems.

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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Mar 276/10

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Demographic Fairness in Multimodal LLMs: A Benchmark of Gender and Ethnicity Bias in Face Verification

A benchmarking study reveals demographic bias in multimodal large language models used for face verification, testing nine models across different ethnicity and gender groups. The research found that face-specialized models outperform general-purpose MLLMs, but accuracy doesn't correlate with fairness, and bias patterns differ from traditional face recognition systems.

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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Mar 37/107

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Measuring What VLMs Don't Say: Validation Metrics Hide Clinical Terminology Erasure in Radiology Report Generation

Researchers identify a critical flaw in Vision-Language Model evaluation for radiology, where high benchmark scores mask models' failure to generate clinically specific terminology. They propose new metrics including Clinical Association Displacement (CAD) to measure bias and clinical signal loss across demographic groups.