Presence Is Not Faithfulness: Figurative Vehicle Intrusion in Text-to-Image Generation
Text-to-image (TTI) models increasingly generate high-quality images from natural-language prompts, yet figurative language exposes a failure: a vehicle that should guide the depiction of a tenor may instead be rendered as a visible object. We call this failure Figurative Vehicle Intrusion: the intruding content is textually licensed, but it is assigned the wrong visual role, showing that visual presence is not always faithfulness and that presence-oriented evaluation can miss such errors. To study it systematically, we introduce Vehicle Intrusion and Semantic Tenor Assessment (VISTA), a multilingual benchmark of figurative prompts organized by Figurative Form and Mapping Mechanism. We fu...
| Authors | Xiaoyu Ma, Chen Yang, Hao Chen |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 26 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 26 September 2026 |
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