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Anti-Diffusion: Preventing Abuse of Modifications of Diffusion-Based Models

arXiv 2503.05595 ↗First posted 7 Mar 2025cs.CVcited by 6

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Abstract (arXiv)

Although diffusion-based techniques have shown remarkable success in image generation and editing tasks, their abuse can lead to severe negative social impacts. Recently, some works have been proposed to provide defense against the abuse of diffusion-based methods. However, their protection may be limited in specific scenarios by manually defined prompts or the stable diffusion (SD) version. Furthermore, these methods solely focus on tuning methods, overlooking editing methods that could also pose a significant threat. In this work, we propose Anti-Diffusion, a privacy protection system designed for general diffusion-based methods, applicable to both tuning and editing techniques. To mitigate the limitations of manually defined prompts on defense performance, we introduce the prompt tuning (PT) strategy that enables precise expression of original images. To provide defense against both tuning and editing methods, we propose the semantic disturbance loss (SDL) to disrupt the semantic information of protected images. Given the limited research on the defense against editing methods, we develop a dataset named Defense-Edit to assess the defense performance of various methods. Experiments demonstrate that our Anti-Diffusion achieves superior defense performance across a wide range of diffusion-based techniques in different scenarios.

Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 21 of its 34 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 Mar 2025.

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  1. 2024DiffusionGuard: A Robust Defense Against Malicious Diffusion-based Image Editing
  2. 2023EditShield: Protecting Unauthorized Image Editing by Instruction-guided Diffusion Models
  3. 2025Is Perturbation-Based Image Protection Disruptive to Image Editing?
  4. 2024CopyrightShield: Enhancing Diffusion Model Security against Copyright Infringement Attacks
  5. 2024Concept Arithmetics for Circumventing Concept Inhibition in Diffusion Models
  6. 2025GuardDoor: Safeguarding Against Malicious Diffusion Editing via Protective Backdoors
  7. 2026Purify Once, Edit Freely: Breaking Image Protections under Model Mismatch
  8. 2024Protective Perturbations against Unauthorized Data Usage in Diffusion-based Image Generation