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CollageAttack exploits cross-modal alignment flaws to jailbreak T2I models

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Researchers from Zhejiang University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University proposed CollageAttack, a single-prompt black-box jailbreak method: it breaks harmful intent into incomplete text fragments, disperses them onto naturally occurring carriers in the scene, and lets the semantics re-emerge through spatial composition on the image plane. The method achieved the highest attack success rate across all targets on five T2I models: GPT-Image-2, Doubao-Seedream-5.0-Lite, Wan2.7-Image-Pro, HiDream-O1-Image, and FLUX.2 [dev]. Another research team used an automated pipeline to rewrite legitimate news headlines into prompts targeting pornography, graphic violence, harmful stereotypes, self-harm, and hate speech, systematically evaluating the harmful content generation capabilities of five open-source text-to-image models. Human evaluation of 1,500 generated images showed a harmful content generation rate of 89.2% for gore, 47.6% for pornography, 43.6% for harmful stereotypes, 46.0% for hate speech, and 34.5% for self-harm, with most appearing in graphic or violent forms; community fine-tuned variants were especially vulnerable to pornographic prompts, with FLUX.1-dev generating clearly realistic related content in 30.9% of cases.

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    Harmful Content Generation in Text-to-Image Models: Capabili
    论文追踪:Study evaluates harmful content generation and review gaps in five open-source text-to-image models
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    CollageAttack exploits cross-modal alignment flaws to jailbreak T2I models
    arXiv:越狱、提示注入、投毒与防御:CollageAttack: Exploiting cross-modal alignment defects for spatial text composition jailbreaks against T2I models.

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Oct 5
  1. 论文追踪
    Study evaluates harmful content generation and review gaps in five open-source text-to-image models

    A research team used an automated pipeline to rewrite legitimate news headlines into prompts targeting pornography, graphic violence, harmful stereotypes, self-harm, and hate speech, systematically evaluating the harmful content generation capabilities of five open-source text-to-image models. Human evaluation of 1,500 generated images showed that gore-related prompts had a harmful content generation rate of 89.2%, pornographic content 47.6%, harmful stereotypes 43.6%, hate speech 46.0%, and self-harm 34.5%, with most appearing in graphic or violent forms. Community fine-tuned variants were especially vulnerable to pornographic prompts, with FLUX.1-dev generating clearly realistic harmful images in 30.9% of cases. Evaluation of automated moderation systems found significant detection gaps, with unsafe images able to bypass filters; among synthetic image detectors, models trained only on benign data performed worse on explicit content, while models trained on more diverse data detected better.

Sep 29
  1. arXiv:越狱、提示注入、投毒与防御Selected
    CollageAttack: Exploiting cross-modal alignment defects for spatial text composition jailbreaks against T2I models.

    Researchers from Zhejiang University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University propose CollageAttack, a single-prompt black-box jailbreak method that breaks harmful intent into incomplete text fragments, disperses them onto naturally occurring carriers in the scene, and lets semantics re-emerge through spatial composition on the image plane. On five T2I models—GPT-Image-2, Doubao-Seedream-5.0-Lite, Wan2.7-Image-Pro, HiDream-O1-Image, and FLUX.2 [dev]—the method achieves the highest attack success rate on all targets, with an aggregate ASR of 77.0% and a maximum of 86.0%, 18.5 percentage points higher than the strongest baseline on the same models. The cross-model average harmfulness score is 6.12/10, higher than the strongest baseline's 4.23/10; on HiDream-I1 it is 5.38 versus 1.69. Ablation shows that using any single component alone yields harmfulness scores of 0.25, 5.47, and 0.53, respectively, while combining all three reaches 6.41.

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