BLACKSBURG, Va., April 30 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
A research team led by Virginia Tech cybersecurity expert Bimal Viswanath has found a critical blind spot in today's image protection techniques designed to prevent bad actors from stealing online content for unauthorized artificial intelligence training, style mimicry, and deepfake manipulations.
The research team found that attackers can defeat existing security using off-the-shelf artificial intelligence (AI) models and simple commands. Furthermore, "there is currently no foolproof, mathematically guaranteed way for users to protect publicly posted images against an adversary using off-the-shelf GenAI models," Viswanath s...