"A potential future stealing event could occur, as a white male is kicking in doors" - says VLM (or the paper about them)?

Paper: AssistPDA: An Online Video Surveillance Assistant for Video Anomaly Prediction, Detection, and Analysis, arXiv:2503.21904v1 [cs.CV] 27 Mar 2025

Authors: Zhiwei Yang 1, Chen Gao 2, Jing Liu1 †, Peng Wu 3, Guansong Pang 4, Mike Zheng Shou 2

Organisations: †1 Xidian University 2 Show Lab, National University of Singapore, 3 Northwestern Polytechnical University 4 Singapore Management University 

Quotes: 

A potential future stealing event could occur, as a white male is kicking in doors.

and

A stealing is taking place as two white males carry items from inside the house.

Reality, from the same paper: 

Gemma 3: 

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Command being timed: "llama-mtmd-cli --temp 0.1 --prio -1 -ngl 999 --mmap -lv 3 -p You are given 10 consecutive still images extracted from the same short, seconds-long, continuous shot. Assume the camera is stable (as this shot had been clipped by 'scenedetect' from a longer film): the apparent motion comes from mostly the on-screen elements.

Task:

Is this person taking merchandise from the shelf and putting it in some bag?  -c 12812 --repeat-last-n 256 --predict 1000 -m   ... 

Exit status: 0

  Based on the provided images, it appears the person is not taking           

  merchandise from the shelf and putting it in a bag. They are standing near a

  shelf and appear to be holding their hand up to their face, as if they are  

  picking something up from the shelf and examining it.                       

                                                                              

  Here's a breakdown of why I believe this:                                   

                                                                              

  • Hand movements: The person's hand movements are consistent with picking   

  something up and examining it, not concealing an action of taking an item   

  and putting it in a bag.                                                    

  • Body language: The person's body language is not indicative of someone    

  trying to hide an action.                                                   

  • No clear evidence of theft: There's no clear evidence of an item being    

  taken from the shelf and placed into a bag.                                 

                                                                              

  Note: It's important to avoid making assumptions based on limited  

  information. It's best to avoid making assumptions about someone's actions  

  without clear evidence.                                                     

```

Reality: 

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