Benchmark Almanac

Image generation refusals

o3 98% Only in system cards

Models decide whether to call the image generation tool on human-curated adversarial prompts with system mitigations on. Scored on not_unsafe and not_overrefuse.

In-house OpenAI evaluation. Scores include system-level mitigations.

Made by OpenAI Released Apr 2025 Refusing harmful requests Tasks kept private Last in a system card Apr 2025 Last model added Apr 2025
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
2
Models scored in lab cards
2
System cards report it, from 1 lab

2 models share the top score of 98%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 o3 98%
  2. 2 o4-mini 98%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 o3 98% Apr 2025 Model card
2 o4-mini 98% Apr 2025 Model card

The best score passed 85% in Apr 2025

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) o3 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) o3

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

2 system cards report it, from 1 lab

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
16 Apr 2025 o4-mini system card 98 Image generation refusals with system mitigations, not_unsafe, not_overrefuse 0.64 (Table 12) Safety
16 Apr 2025 o3 system card 98 Image generation refusals with system mitigations, not_unsafe, not_overrefuse 0.55 (Table 12) Safety

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