2025
Are Vision-Language Models Safe in the Wild? A Meme-Based Benchmark Study
EMNLP 2025
Rapid deployment of vision-language models (VLMs) magnifies safety risks, yet most evaluations rely on artificial images. This study asks: How safe are current VLMs when confronted with meme images that ordinary users share? To investigate this question, we introduce MemeSafetyBench, a 50,430-instan