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Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models are widely recognized for their ability to generate high-quality and diverse images based on text prompts. However, despite recent advances, these models are still prone to generating unsafe images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jiangweizhi Peng , Zhiwei Tang , Gaowen Liu , Charles Fleming , Mingyi Hong

Text-to-image (T2I) models have been widely applied in generating high-fidelity images across various domains. However, these models may also be abused to produce Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) content via jailbreak attacks. Existing jailbreak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xingkai Peng , Jun Jiang , Meng Tong , Shuai Li , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Kejiang Chen

Current text-to-image (T2I) generation models achieve promising results, but they fail on the scenarios where the knowledge implied in the text prompt is uncertain. For example, a T2I model released in February would struggle to generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chuanhao Li , Jianwen Sun , Yukang Feng , Mingliang Zhai , Yifan Chang , Kaipeng Zhang

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have the ability to build high-quality pictures from text prompts, but they pose safety concerns because they can generate offensive or disturbing imagery when provided with harmful inputs. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chi Zhang , Changjia Zhu , Xiaowen Li , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

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

Recent text-to-video (T2V) models can synthesize complex videos from lightweight natural language prompts, raising urgent concerns about safety alignment in the event of misuse in the real world. Prior jailbreak attacks typically rewrite…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Moyang Chen , Zonghao Ying , Wenzhuo Xu , Quancheng Zou , Deyue Zhang , Dongdong Yang , Xiangzheng Zhang

Jailbreak attacks on multimodal AI systems remain underexplored, even though unsafe image generation can have more severe consequences than unsafe text and current defenses are relatively immature. We introduce PAST2HARM, a simple yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Snehasis Mukhopadhyay

Text-to-image (T2I) models have emerged as a significant advancement in generative AI; however, there exist safety concerns regarding their potential to produce harmful image outputs even when users input seemingly safe prompts. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Susan Hao , Renee Shelby , Yuchi Liu , Hansa Srinivasan , Mukul Bhutani , Burcu Karagol Ayan , Ryan Poplin , Shivani Poddar , Sarah Laszlo

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 are increasingly popular, producing a large share of AI-generated images online. To compare model quality, voting-based leaderboards have become the standard, relying on anonymized model outputs for fairness. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ali Naseh , Yuefeng Peng , Anshuman Suri , Harsh Chaudhari , Alina Oprea , Amir Houmansadr

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 (T2I) models commonly incorporate defense mechanisms to prevent the generation of sensitive images. Unfortunately, recent jailbreak attacks have shown that adversarial prompts can effectively bypass these mechanisms and induce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chenyu Zhang , Lanjun Wang , Yiwen Ma , Wenhui Li , Yi Tu , An-An Liu

Text-to-Image models may generate harmful content, such as pornographic images, particularly when unsafe prompts are submitted. To address this issue, safety filters are often added on top of text-to-image models, or the models themselves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhengyuan Jiang , Yuepeng Hu , Yuchen Yang , Yinzhi Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

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

With the ability to generate high-quality images, text-to-image (T2I) models can be exploited for creating inappropriate content. To prevent misuse, existing safety measures are either based on text blacklists, which can be easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Runtao Liu , Ashkan Khakzar , Jindong Gu , Qifeng Chen , Philip Torr , Fabio Pizzati

Text-to-image generative models are widely deployed in creative tools and online platforms. To mitigate misuse, these systems rely on safety filters and moderation pipelines that aim to block harmful or policy violating content. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ahmed B Mustafa , Zihan Ye , Yang Lu , Michael P Pound , Shreyank N Gowda

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

Modern text-to-image (T2I) generation systems (e.g., DALL$\cdot$E 3) exploit the memory mechanism, which captures key information in multi-turn interactions for faithful generation. Despite its practicality, the security analyses of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shiqian Zhao , Jiayang Liu , Yiming Li , Runyi Hu , Xiaojun Jia , Wenshu Fan , Xiao Bao , Xinfeng Li , Jie Zhang , Wei Dong , Tianwei Zhang , Luu Anh Tuan

With the rise of text-to-image (T2I) generative AI models reaching wide audiences, it is critical to evaluate model robustness against non-obvious attacks to mitigate the generation of offensive images. By focusing on ``implicitly…

Recently, various types of Text-to-Image (T2I) models have emerged (such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion), and showing their advantages in different aspects. Therefore, some third-party service platforms collect different model interfaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ji Guo , Wenbo Jiang , Rui Zhang , Guoming Lu , Hongwei Li