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Nightshade: Prompt-Specific Poisoning Attacks on Text-to-Image Generative Models
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“Nightshade (Shan et al., 2024) aims to poison images so that, while still looking the same if examined by humans, a model trained on them completely misinterprets their content (e.g., wrongly detects a cat where an image contains a dog).”
From Generative AI and intellectual property: a systematic literature review of possible issues and mitigations (2026) · cites this paper as Shan et al., 2024
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“This can lead, during the model functioning, to produce a number of hallucinations proportional to the number of poisoned training samples involved, leaving AI developers with the sole option of re-training the model through the exclusion of the poisoned images.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shan, S., Ding, W., Passananti, J., Wu, S., Zheng, H., & Zhao, B. Y.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago,Department of Computer Science
- Venue
- 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2024-05-19
- Pages
- 807-825
- Cited by
- 93
- References
- 21
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