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This paper analyzes the community safety guidelines of five text-to-image (T2I) generation platforms and audits five T2I models, focusing on prompts related to the representation of humans in areas that might lead to societal stigma. While…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Piera Riccio , Georgina Curto , Nuria Oliver

The rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) models, such as Stable Diffusion, has enhanced their capability to synthesize images from textual prompts. However, this progress also raises significant risks of misuse, including the generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yu Xie , Chengjie Zeng , Lingyun Zhang , Yanwei Fu

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have rapidly advanced, enabling the generation of high-quality images that align closely with textual descriptions. However, this progress has also raised concerns about their misuse for propaganda and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jaechul Roh , Andrew Yuan , Jinsong Mao

Recent studies show that text-to-image (T2I) models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially with noun perturbations in text prompts. In this study, we investigate the impact of adversarial attacks on different POS tags within text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 G M Shahariar , Jia Chen , Jiachen Li , Yue Dong

Text-to-Image (TTI) generative models have shown great progress in the past few years in terms of their ability to generate complex and high-quality imagery. At the same time, these models have been shown to suffer from harmful biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Aditya Chinchure , Pushkar Shukla , Gaurav Bhatt , Kiri Salij , Kartik Hosanagar , Leonid Sigal , Matthew Turk

Diffusion models excel in many generative modeling tasks, notably in creating images from text prompts, a task referred to as text-to-image (T2I) generation. Despite the ability to generate high-quality images, these models often replicate…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yang Zhang , Teoh Tze Tzun , Lim Wei Hern , Haonan Wang , Kenji Kawaguchi

In recent years, text-to-image (T2I) generation models have made significant progress in generating high-quality images that align with text descriptions. However, these models also face the risk of unsafe generation, potentially producing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Huming Qiu , Guanxu Chen , Mi Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Xiaoyu You , Min Yang

Text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs) have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality and diverse images from text prompts, yet recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to backdoor attacks. Existing attack methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Haoran Dai , Jiawen Wang , Ruo Yang , Manali Sharma , Zhonghao Liao , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have recently achieved remarkable success in generating images from textual descriptions. However, challenges still persist in accurately rendering complex scenes where actions and interactions form the primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Vatsal Malaviya , Agneet Chatterjee , Maitreya Patel , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

With the advance of generative AI, the text-to-image (T2I) model has the ability to generate various contents. However, the generated contents cannot be fully controlled. There is a potential risk that T2I model can generate unsafe images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Dong Han , Salaheldin Mohamed , Yong Li

Text-to-image (T2I) models have become prevalent across numerous applications, making their robust evaluation against adversarial attacks a critical priority. Continuous access to new and challenging adversarial prompts across diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jessica Quaye , Charvi Rastogi , Alicia Parrish , Oana Inel , Minsuk Kahng , Lora Aroyo , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Our research investigates the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) models, specifically text-to-image generators (T2Is), on the representation of non-Western cultures, with a focus on Indian contexts. Despite the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Sourojit Ghosh , Pranav Narayanan Venkit , Sanjana Gautam , Shomir Wilson , Aylin Caliskan

Text-to-image (T2I) models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities but remain vulnerable to producing not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, such as violent or explicit imagery. While recent moderation efforts have introduced soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zonglei Jing , Xiao Yang , Xiaoqian Li , Siyuan Liang , Aishan Liu , Mingchuan Zhang , Xianglong Liu

With the increasing use of image generation technology, understanding its social biases, including gender bias, is essential. This paper presents a large-scale study on gender bias in text-to-image (T2I) models, focusing on everyday…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Leander Girrbach , Stephan Alaniz , Genevieve Smith , Zeynep Akata

Machine learning models that convert user-written text descriptions into images are now widely available online and used by millions of users to generate millions of images a day. We investigate the potential for these models to amplify…

Despite recent progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation, existing models often struggle to faithfully capture user intentions from short and under-specified prompts. While prior work has attempted to enhance prompts using large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Mingrui Wu , Lu Wang , Pu Zhao , Fangkai Yang , Jianjin Zhang , Jianfeng Liu , Yuefeng Zhan , Weihao Han , Hao Sun , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Qingwei Lin , Weiwei Deng , Dongmei Zhang , Feng Sun , Qi Zhang , Rongrong Ji

The field of text-to-image (T2I) generation has garnered significant attention both within the research community and among everyday users. Despite the advancements of T2I models, a common issue encountered by users is the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wanrong Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Yujie Lu , Tsu-Jui Fu , Xin Eric Wang , Miguel Eckstein , William Yang Wang

Text-guided image manipulation with diffusion models enables flexible and precise editing based on prompts, but raises ethical and copyright concerns due to potential unauthorized modifications. To address this, we propose SecureT2I, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiaodong Wu , Xiangman Li , Qi Li , Jianbing Ni , Rongxing Lu

Impressive advances in text-to-image (T2I) generative models have yielded a plethora of high performing models which are able to generate aesthetically appealing, photorealistic images. Despite the progress, these models still struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Oscar Mañas , Pietro Astolfi , Melissa Hall , Candace Ross , Jack Urbanek , Adina Williams , Aishwarya Agrawal , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Michal Drozdzal

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have achieved remarkable success in generating visual content from text inputs. Although multiple safety alignment strategies have been proposed to prevent harmful outputs, they often lead to overly cautious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ziheng Cheng , Yixiao Huang , Hui Xu , Somayeh Sojoudi , Xuandong Zhao , Dawn Song , Song Mei