A new study finds that ordinary formatting can quietly steer AI reasoning, causing it to overlook words, misread meaning, and reach different conclusions – without changing the text itself. Humans’ cultural encoding of color may vary around the world, but the western conceits – i.e., red for ‘danger’, green for ‘ok’ – tend to predominate even in Asian Vision Language Models (VLMs), for various strategic and/or happenstantial reasons. We’re no different; coloring ‘bad’ things in positive colors…