Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 11, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York

Three New Papers Attack the Weak Points of Multimodal Models at Once

Researchers target the security of optical token compression in DeepSeek-OCR, replace static hallucination benchmarks with fuzzing, and catalogue how modality fusion opens new attack surface.

Optical compression has become a standard technique for long-context document work: render text as an image, feed it to a vision encoder, and pay far fewer tokens than the character-level equivalent. DeepSeek-OCR made that approach popular.…