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Text-to-image models are increasingly popular and impactful, yet concerns regarding their safety and fairness remain. This study investigates the ability of ten popular Stable Diffusion models to generate harmful images, including NSFW,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Matthias Schneider , Thilo Hagendorff

Recent advances in Diffusion Models have enabled the generation of images from text, with powerful closed-source models like DALL-E and Midjourney leading the way. However, open-source alternatives, such as StabilityAI's Stable Diffusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Massine El Khader , Elias Al Bouzidi , Abdellah Oumida , Mohammed Sbaihi , Eliott Binard , Jean-Philippe Poli , Wassila Ouerdane , Boussad Addad , Katarzyna Kapusta

As text-to-image (T2I) models advance and gain widespread adoption, their associated safety concerns are becoming increasingly critical. Malicious users exploit these models to generate Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images using harmful or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yiming Wang , Jiahao Chen , Qingming Li , Tong Zhang , Rui Zeng , Xing Yang , Shouling Ji

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently received a lot of interest for their astonishing ability to produce high-fidelity images from text only. However, achieving one-shot generation that aligns with the user's intent is nearly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Manuel Brack , Felix Friedrich , Dominik Hintersdorf , Lukas Struppek , Patrick Schramowski , Kristian Kersting

With the rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) models, ensuring their safety has become increasingly critical. Existing safety approaches can be categorized into training-time and inference-time methods. While inference-time methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ruiyang Zhang , Jiahao Luo , Xiaoru Feng , Qiufan Pang , Yaodong Yang , Juntao Dai

Malicious or manipulated prompts are known to exploit text-to-image models to generate unsafe images. Existing studies, however, focus on the passive exploitation of such harmful capabilities. In this paper, we investigate the proactive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yixin Wu , Ning Yu , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

The widespread deployment of text-to-image diffusion models is significantly challenged by the generation of visually harmful content, such as sexually explicit content, violence, and horror imagery. Common safety interventions, ranging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Lingyun Zhang , Yu Xie , Zhongli Fang , Yu Liu , Ping Chen

The rapid proliferation of multimodal generative models has sparked critical discussions on their reliability, fairness and potential for misuse. While text-to-image models excel at producing high-fidelity, user-guided content, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Leonid Sigal , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

Recent advancements in Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated impressive success in generating high-quality images with zero-shot generalization capabilities. Yet, current models struggle to closely adhere to prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Hyun Kang , Dohae Lee , Myungjin Shin , In-Kwon Lee

In the past years, we have witnessed the remarkable success of Text-to-Image (T2I) models and their widespread use on the web. Extensive research in making T2I models produce hyper-realistic images has led to new concerns, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Muhammad Shahid Muneer , Simon S. Woo

Text-to-image (T2I) models can generate not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, motivating multi-stage safety pipelines with both text and image filters. Newer LLM-based filters detect latent intent beyond keywords, making token-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zixuan Chen , Hao Lin , Ke Xu , Xinghao Jiang , Tanfeng Sun

In this paper, we introduce TextBoost, an efficient one-shot personalization approach for text-to-image diffusion models. Traditional personalization methods typically involve fine-tuning extensive portions of the model, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 NaHyeon Park , Kunhee Kim , Hyunjung Shim

Text-to-image (T2I) models, though exhibiting remarkable creativity in image generation, can be exploited to produce unsafe images. Existing safety measures, e.g., content moderation or model alignment, fail in the presence of white-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xinfeng Li , Shengyuan Pang , Jialin Wu , Jiangyi Deng , Huanlong Zhong , Yanjiao Chen , Jie Zhang , Wenyuan Xu

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models such as Stable Diffusion and FLUX can synthesize realistic, high-quality images directly from textual prompts. The resulting image quality depends critically on well-crafted prompts that specify both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mingzhe Li , Renhao Zhang , Zhiyang Wen , Siqi Pan , Bruno Castro da Silva , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma

Text-to-image diffusion models can create stunning images from natural language descriptions that rival the work of professional artists and photographers. However, these models are large, with complex network architectures and tens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yanyu Li , Huan Wang , Qing Jin , Ju Hu , Pavlo Chemerys , Yun Fu , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

Text-to-Image generation models have revolutionized the artwork design process and enabled anyone to create high-quality images by entering text descriptions called prompts. Creating a high-quality prompt that consists of a subject and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xinyue Shen , Yiting Qu , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Training multimodal generative models on large, uncurated datasets can result in users being exposed to harmful, unsafe and controversial or culturally-inappropriate outputs. While model editing has been proposed to remove or filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Mubarak Shah , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

The conditional text-to-image diffusion models have garnered significant attention in recent years. However, the precision of these models is often compromised mainly for two reasons, ambiguous condition input and inadequate condition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Sicheng Li , Keqiang Sun , Zhixin Lai , Xiaoshi Wu , Feng Qiu , Haoran Xie , Kazunori Miyata , Hongsheng Li

Recently text-to-image models have gained widespread attention in the community due to their controllable and high-quality generation ability. However, the robustness of such models and their potential ethical issues have not been fully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Shengfang Zhai , Weilong Wang , Jiajun Li , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Qingni Shen

Recent advances in large text-conditional diffusion models have revolutionized image generation by enabling users to create realistic, high-quality images from textual prompts, significantly enhancing artistic creation and visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ali Naseh , Jaechul Roh , Eugene Bagdasarian , Amir Houmansadr