Is GPT-4o mini Blinded by its Own Safety Filters? Exposing the Multimodal-to-Unimodal Bottleneck in Hate Speech Detection

Niruthiha Selvanayagam, Ted Kurti

As Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) become integral to daily digital life, understanding their safety architectures is a critical problem for AI Alignment. This paper presents a syst…