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Jailbreaking Prompt Attack: A Controllable Adversarial Attack against Diffusion Models
Jiachen Ma, Anda Cao, Zhiqing Xiao, Jie Zhang, Chao Ye, Junbo Zhao
Models: CLIP, DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion (Stability.ai API), Stable Diffusion v1.4
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The paper introduces the Jailbreaking Prompt Attack (JPA), a novel, automated, and universal black-box adversarial attack against Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models. JPA exploits inherent NSFW concepts in high-dimensional text embedding spaces by optimizing prefix prompts using a soft assignment with gradient masking technique. It bypasses various safety checkers (text, image, and text-image based) and concept removal methods while maintaining high semantic fidelity to the original prompt, outperforming existing methods in speed and effectiveness.
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Abstract:Text-to-image (T2I) models can be maliciously used to generate harmful content such as sexually explicit, unfaithful, and misleading or Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images. Previous attacks largely depend on the availability of the diffusion model or involve a lengthy optimization process. In this work, we investigate a more practical and universal attack that does not require the presence of a target model and demonstrate that the high-dimensional text embedding space inherently contains NSFW concepts that can be exploited to generate harmful images. We present the Jailbreaking Prompt Attack (JPA). JPA first searches for the target malicious concepts in the text embedding space using a group of antonyms generated by ChatGPT. Subsequently, a prefix prompt is optimized in the discrete vocabulary space to align malicious concepts semantically in the text embedding space. We further introduce a soft assignment with gradient masking technique that allows us to perform gradient ascent in the discrete vocabulary space. We perform extensive experiments with open-sourced T2I models, e.g. stable-diffusion-v1-4 and closed-sourced online services, e.g. DALLE2, Midjourney with black-box safety checkers. Results show that (1) JPA bypasses both text and image safety checkers (2) while preserving high semantic alignment with the target prompt. (3) JPA demonstrates a much faster speed than previous methods and can be executed in a fully automated manner. These merits render it a valuable tool for robustness evaluation in future text-to-image generation research.
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Jailbreaking Prompt Attack: A Controllable Adversarial Attack against Diffusion Models Jiachen Ma1, Yijiang Li2, Zhiqing Xiao1, Anda Cao1, Jie Zhang3, Chao Ye1, Junbo Zhao1 1Zhejiang University,2UC San Diego, 3ETH Zurich mjc_zjdx@zju.edu.cn, j.zhao@zju.edu.cn Abstract Text-to-image (T2I) models can be maliciously used to generate harmful content such as sexually explicit, unfaithful, and misleading or Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images. Previous attacks largely depend on the availability of the diffusion model or involve a lengthy optimization process. In this work, we investigate a more practical and universal attack that does not require the presence of a target model and demonstrate that the high-dimensional text embedding space inherently contains NSFW concepts that can be exploited to generate harmful images. We present the Jailbreaking Prompt Attack (JPA). JPA first searches for the target malicious concepts in the text embedding space using a group of antonyms generated by ChatGPT. Subsequently, a prefix prompt is optimized in the discrete vocabulary space to align malicious concepts semantically in the text embedding space. We further introduce a soft assignment with gradient masking technique that allows us to perform gradient ascent in the discrete vocabulary space. We perform extensive experiments with open-sourced T2I models, e.g. (CompVis, 2022a) and closed-sourced online services, e.g. (Ramesh et al., 2022; MidJourney, 2023; Podell et al., 2023) with black-box safety checkers. Results show that (1) JPA bypasses both text and image safety checkers (2) while preserving high semantic alignment with the target prompt. (3) JPA demonstrates a much faster speed than previous methods and can be executed in a fully automated manner. These merits render it a valuable tool for robustness evaluation in future text-to-image generation research. Our code is in https://github.com/mjc-ma/JPA Disclaimer: This paper contains unsafe imagery that might be offensive to some readers. Jailbreaking Prompt Attack: A Controllable Adversarial Attack against Diffusion Models Jiachen Ma1, Yijiang Li2, Zhiqing Xiao1, Anda Cao1, Jie Zhang3, Chao Ye1, Junbo Zhao1 1Zhejiang University,2UC San Diego, 3ETH Zurich mjc_zjdx@zju.edu.cn, j.zhao@zju.edu.cn 1 Introduction The rapid development of Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models (Ho et al., 2020; Rombach et al., 2022; Gal et al., 2022; Esser et al., 2021) has garnered significant attention, particularly in the context of both open-source models, such as Stable diffusion (CompVis, 2022a), SDXL (Podell et al., 2023), and online services like DALLâ ¡â E 2 (Ramesh et al., 2022), Midjourney (MidJourney, 2023), Stability.ai (Runwayml, 2023). These models have significantly lowered the barriers to entry, enabling users to engage more easily with diverse domains such as artistic creation and scene design (Microsoft, 2023; gen2, 2022; OpenAI, 2023). However, T2I models also present significant security concerns, (Saharia et al., 2022; Schramowski et al., 2023; Qu et al., 2023), primarily manifested in the misuse for generating Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) content, including depictions of nudity, violence, and other distressing material. For example, white-box attack methods optimize adversarial prompts by aligning the output noise with that of an unprotected T2I model (Chin et al., 2024) or with a standard Gaussian distribution (Zhang et al., 2024). Despite of effectiveness, these methods require the activation or gradients of the internal UNet model ronneberger2015u; li2022more, which limits their applicability to online services like DALLâ ¡â E 2 (Ramesh et al., 2022) and Midjourney (MidJourney, 2023). Conversely, black-box methods (Zhuang et al., 2023; huang2023multiďźtsai2023ring; Yang et al., 2024) attempt to optimize a prompt by either repeatedly querying the T2I model (Yang et al., 2024) or targeting the text encoder (Zhuang et al., 2023; Tsai et al., 2023), without the access of a T2I model. To mitigate these risks, contemporary T2I models incorporate stringent safety checkers and removal techniques to prevent the generation of NSFW content, including text-based (Jieli, 2023; George, 2023), image-based (Laion-ai, 2023; Chhabra, 2020) and (Rando et al., 2022; CompVis, 2022b) text-image-based safety checkers. These checkers either filter out sensitive words or classify unsafe images. Concept removal methods (Schramowski et al., 2023; Gandikota et al., 2023; Zhang et al., 2023) eliminate targeted unsafe concepts by guiding the denoising process away from unsafe concepts by fine-tuning the model. Even with carefully crafted prompts (Schramowski et al., 2023), these safety checkers and removal methods can prevent successful generation of NSFW images. Figure 1: An example on malicious prompt: âsexy seductive little smile sophia vergara in nurse by agnes cecile enki bilal moebius, intricated details, lingerie, 3 / 4 back view, hair styled in a bun, bend over posture, full body portrait, extremely luminous bright design, pastel colours, drips, autumn lights.â (a) Limitation of prior methods: Inconsistent semantics between NSFW generation and input prompt. (b) We precisely control the extent to which ânudityâ emerges in the generated images by a scalar Îť. In the face of these safety measures, prior attack methods inevitably exhibit some drawbacks. As illustrated in Figure 1 (a), prior methods often compromise semantic fidelity to circumvent the robust safety checkers integrated into T2I generation models. Although they may succeed in generating NSFW images, the resulting content frequently fails to semantically align with the original input prompts. Furthermore, the challenge of searching an adversarial prompt within the discrete text space is exacerbated by the presence of safety checkers, leading to prolonged optimization processes or necessitating additional post-processing steps (Tsai et al., 2023; Zhuang et al., 2023). These processes significantly extend the attack duration, thereby rendering such methods impractical. In this work, we show that the existing safety measures are not as effective as they may look. Our study is motivated by the lack of robustness in the embedding spaces (Zhuang et al., 2023). We discover that the NSFW concepts are inherently embedded in the high-dimensional text embedding space. These NSFW concepts can be captured through specific concept embeddings, which allow us to manipulate the presence or absence of these concepts in generated images by simply adding or subtracting the corresponding embeddings. Furthermore, by adjusting the magnitude, we can precisely control the extent to which NSFW concepts emerge in the generated images, as shown in (b) of Figure 1. In light of these observations, we introduce Jailbreaking Prompt Attack (JPA), a more practical and universal attack in the black-box setting. JPA first searches a concept embedding that encapsulates the target malicious concept in the embedding space. These extra tokens are optimized to align with a group of antonyms of the target malicious concept generated by ChatGPT. To map back from the continuous embedding space to the discrete text token space, we optimize a prefix prompt concatenated at the beginning of the original prompt. To perform gradient ascent in discretized space, we propose a soft assignment with a gradient masking technique. The discrete token selection is modeled as a soft assignment, with the final token being chosen based on the highest probability. To prevent the appearance of sensitive words in the final prompt, we mask the gradients associated with a predefined list of NSFW terms. This ensures that only regular words achieve high probabilities during the soft assignment process. white-box black-box P4D UnlearnDiff QF-Attack Ring-A-Bell SneakyPrompt JPA (Ours) Bypass text-based checker (Jieli, 2023; George, 2023) Ă Ă Ă Ă â â â â Bypass image-based checker (Laion-ai, 2023; Chhabra, 2020) â â â â Ă Ă â â â â Bypass text-image based checker (Rando et al., 2022; CompVis, 2022b) â â â â Ă Ă â â â â Bypass removal methods (Gandikota et al., 2023; Zhang et al., 2023) â â â â Ă â â â â â â Applicable to online service (MidJourney, 2023; Ramesh et al., 2022) Ă Ă Ă â â â â â â Semantics Fidelity â â â â Ă Ă Ă â â Post-processing w/ prompt-dilution â â â â â â Ă â â â â w/ modification â â â â â â Ă â â â â Table 1: Comparison between JPA and prior attack methods. We demonstrate the advantages of JPA. Extensive experiments are performed with both open-sourced T2I models (CompVis, 2022a) and closed-sourced online services (Ramesh et al., 2022; MidJourney, 2023; Podell et al., 2023). Our JPA exhibits (1) controllable NSFW concept rendering, (2) high semantic alignment with the target prompt, and (3) stealthiness to bypass all safety checkers. Equipped with our optimization technique, JPA also demonstrates a much faster speed than previous methods, executed in a fully automated manner. 2 Related Work T2I models with defense methods. To address concerns of NSFW generation, safety checkers is a common practice in existing T2I models. For example, Stable Diffusion (CompVis, 2022a) filters out contents from 17 concepts (Rando et al., 2022) by leveraging cosine similarity between embeddings. DALL¡E 2 (Ramesh et al., 2022) filters out contents from 11 categories such as hate, harassment, sexual, and self-harm. Concept removal methods, on the other hand, force the model to forget the NSFW concepts in the generation. These methods have garnered widespread attention because when they can still generate images without NSFW content even if an unsafe text prompt in given. SLD (Schramowski et al., 2023) and SD-NP (Rombach et al., 2022) remove concepts during the inference stage. Other methods such as ESD (Gandikota et al., 2023) and FMN (Zhang et al., 2023) finetune the model to achieve concept removal. This ensures safety even in white-box setting, as the parameters have already been changed to remove the NSFW concepts. Adversarial attack on T2I models. Existing studies on adversarial attacks in Text-to-Image (T2I) models (Qu et al., 2023; Gao et al., 2023; Kou et al., 2023; Liu et al., 2023) have primarily focused on text modifications to identify functional vulnerabilities, without specifically targeting the generation of NSFW content. While some researchers (Rando et al., 2022) have explored techniques like prompt dilution to bypass safety checkers, these methods often depend on inherent patterns, limiting their portability and scalability. Efforts to assess the security of T2I models such as (Chin et al., 2024; Zhang et al., 2024) that induce offline models to produce NSFW content. However, these methods are ineffective for online services with unknown security checkers. QF-Attack (Zhuang et al., 2023), Ring-A-Bell (Tsai et al., 2023), and SneakyPrompt (Yang et al., 2024) address this challenge by leveraging semantic information from the CLIP text encoder. Nevertheless, these approaches face two significant limitations: (1) they may fail to maintain consistent semantics with the target prompt and (2) often require lengthy search process to deliver the final adversarial prompt. Prompt perturbations in vision-language models. Due to the complexity of the text space, some studies employ prompt perturbation techniques to learn reusable prompts for generating specific images (Wen et al., 2023), or to investigate particular issues within T2I models, such as the hidden vocabulary in DALL¡E 2 (Daras and Dimakis, 2022; Maus et al., 2023). Other research uses fine-tuning methods to create prompts for generating personalized content (Gal et al., 2022). However, these approaches do not address the generation of NSFW content from a safety perspective. 3 Preliminary In this section, we first present the defense model and then we present the insights of JPA illustrated in Figure 2 (b). 3.1 Defense Model In this paper, we take into consideration all existing safety checkers, including text-based, image-based, and text-image-based checkers. Text-based safety checkers (Jieli, 2023; George, 2023) operate before image generation, detecting and filtering potentially unsafe words in the input text. Image-based safety checkers (Laion-ai, 2023; Chhabra, 2020) on the other hand, classify the generated images to determine whether they are unsafe, blocking those deemed inappropriate. Additionally, text-image-based safety checkers (Rando et al., 2022; CompVis, 2022b) filter out NSFW content by calculating the cosine similarity between embeddings of malicious concepts and the image embedding under evaluation. This is usually achieved through a pre-defined threshold and images that goes above this threshold will be filtered. We also consider the concept removal methods (Schramowski et al., 2023; Gandikota et al., 2023; Zhang et al., 2023) eliminate targeted unsafe concepts by guiding the denoising process away from unsafe space by fine-tuning the model. We show later that these methods do not fully remove malicious concepts, which continue to reside within the high-dimensional embedding space. 3.2 Insights We first introduce some notations. We denote the T2I model as âąâ˘(â )âąâ F(¡)F ( â ) with a frozen text encoder â˘(â )â T(¡)T ( â ), the target prompt as ptsubscriptp_tpitalic_t and the generated image by the T2I model as âąâ˘(pt)âąsubscriptF(p_t)F ( pitalic_t ). If a prompt p is detected by any of the safety checkers during the generation, no output will be returned. In other words, output is âąâ˘(p)=â ,ifâ˘ââ˘(âą,p)=1formulae-sequenceâąifââą1F(p)= ,if\ H(F,p)=1F ( p ) = â , if H ( F , p ) = 1, where âHH is the safety checker function. Removal-based methods focus on guiding image generation away from a target NSFW concept câc â C where CC represents the set of all malicious concepts (e.g. by modifying the predicted noise Ďľâ˘(pt)italic-ĎľsubscriptÎľ(p_t)Ďľ ( pitalic_t ) to Ďľâ˘(pt)âĎľâ˘(c)italic-Ďľsubscriptitalic-Ͼξ(p_t)-Îľ(c)Ďľ ( pitalic_t ) - Ďľ ( c )). Unlike traditional safety checkers, these methods allow users to obtain an output image âąâ˛â˘(pt)superscriptâąâ˛subscriptF (p_t)FⲠ( pitalic_t ) that typically no longer contains unsafe concepts. âąâ˛F FⲠis either a modified or a fine-tuned T2I model. Given a safety checker âHH, T2I model âąFF and a target prompt ptsubscriptp_tpitalic_t, we define a prompt pasubscriptp_apitalic_a as an adversarial prompt if it satisfies ââ˘(âą,pa)=0ââąsubscript0H(F,p_a)=0H ( F , pitalic_a ) = 0 and âąâ˘(pa)âąsubscriptF(p_a)F ( pitalic_a ) has similar visual semantics as âąâ˘(pt)âąsubscriptF(p_t)F ( pitalic_t ). Following this setup, we then consider only prompts that (1) can map to unsafe images and (2) be sensitive to safety checkers. We denote a space that satisfies the above two criteria as PP (red circle in the Figure 2 (b)), which can be divided into sensitive/insensitive space =sensitiveâŞinsensitivesubscriptsensitivesubscriptinsensitiveP=P_sensitive _insensitiveP = Psensitive ⪠Pinsensitive. The safety checker operates on the sensitive space sensitivesubscriptsensitiveP_sensitivePsensitive and any prompt in it to either safe regions of image space or null space. For simplicity, we denote them all as âsafesubscriptâsafeI_safeIsafe. Our goal is to bypass the safety checkers, i.e. find a mapping J:sensitiveâinsensitive:âsubscriptsensitivesubscriptinsensitiveJ:P_sensitive _insensitiveJ : Psensitive â Pinsensitive and since âąâ˘(insensitive)=âunsafeâąsubscriptinsensitivesubscriptâunsafeF(P_insensitive)=I_unsafeF ( Pinsensitive ) = Iunsafe, J succeeds in attacking the T2I model. That is to say, for any ptâsensitivesubscriptsubscriptsensitivep_t _sensitivepitalic_t â Psensitive, find a paâinsensitivesubscriptsubscriptinsensitivep_a _insensitivepitalic_a â Pinsensitive that (1) goes crosses the decision boundary of the safety checkers and (2) semantically similar to âąâ˘(pt)âąsubscriptF(p_t)F ( pitalic_t ). Then the research question becomes: how to find J that can effectively and efficiently map sensitivesubscriptsensitiveP_sensitivePsensitive to insensitivesubscriptinsensitiveP_insensitivePinsensitive? Our method stems from the conversation that high-dimensional text embedding space inherently contains NSFW concepts as concept embeddings. These embeddings can help us search a set of prefix tokens not in the sensitive space (typically looks like noise) that can be mapped to an NSFW image. Prefix optimization can help maintain the original semantics which fulfills the semantic fidelity requirement. 4 JPA: Jailbreaking Prompt Attack Figure 2: (a) Overview of the Jailbreaking Prompt Attack (JPA). Given a target prompt prsubscriptp_rpitalic_r and a contrastive description of an NSFW concept <r+,râsuperscriptsuperscriptr^+,r^-r+ , r-> such as <ânudityâ, âclothedâ> for the ânudityâ concept, we first obtain the embedding â˘(pr)subscriptT(p_r)T ( pitalic_r ), which encapsulates both the semantic meaning and the unsafe concept. We then optimize our adversarial prompt pasubscriptp_apitalic_a to align â˘(pr)subscriptT(p_r)T ( pitalic_r ) in the embedding space. (b) Equipped with safety checkers, the T2I model will map any prompt with sensitive words to either null space (w/ output) or a safe image (by concept removal). Our insight is to find an attacker function that map a sensitive prompt to an insensitive one while still maintaining NSFW content and semantic fidelity. In this section, we introduce our Jailbreaking Prompt Attack (JPA), as shown in Figure 2 (a). Given a sensitive prompt ptâsensitivesubscriptsubscriptsensitivep_t _sensitivepitalic_t â Psensitive, JPA aims to search for an adversarial prompt paâinsensitivesubscriptsubscriptinsensitivep_a _insensitivepitalic_a â Pinsensitive. Denote a target prompt of length n as pt=[p1,p2,âŻ,pn]subscriptsubscript1subscript2âŻsubscriptp_t=[p_1,p_2,¡s,p_n]pitalic_t = [ p1 , p2 , ⯠, pitalic_n ], JPA starts by adding the k learnable tokens at the beginning as the initial pa=[v1,âŚ,vi,âŚ,vk,p1,p2,âŻ,pn]subscriptsubscript1âŚsubscriptâŚsubscriptsubscript1subscript2âŻsubscriptp_a=[v_1,...,v_i,...,v_k,p_1,p_2,¡s,p_n]pitalic_a = [ v1 , ⌠, vitalic_i , ⌠, vitalic_k , p1 , p2 , ⯠, pitalic_n ]. Each learnable token visubscriptv_ivitalic_i is first randomly selected from the vocabulary V, e.g. CLIP token vocabulary of 49,408 tokens. For each learnable token position i, any token from a vocabulary V is considered a potential substitute. We enable the gradient of all visubscriptv_ivitalic_i and perform backpropagation on the attack learning objective to calculate the gradient. We optimize the pasubscriptp_apitalic_a with prefix learnable tokens to align with targeted NSFW concepts. Given a specific malicious concept, e.g. ânudityâ, we first generate N pairs of antonyms associated with it utilizing ChatGPT4, e.g. ânudeâ and âclothedâ, denoted as r+Nsuperscriptsuperscript\r^+\^N r+ N and râNsuperscriptsuperscript\r^-\^N r- N. Then we subtract the antonyms embedding pairwisely and average them to capture the target NSFW concept in the embedding space. r=1Nâ˘âi=1nâ˘(ri+)ââ˘(riâ),1superscriptsubscript1superscriptsubscriptsuperscriptsubscriptr= 1N _i=1^nT(r_i^+)-T(r_i^-),r = divide start_ARG 1 end_ARG start_ARG N end_ARG âi = 1n T ( ritalic_i+ ) - T ( ritalic_i- ) , (1) Then we add these embeddings to the original prompt embedding, denoted as â˘(pr)subscriptT(p_r)T ( pitalic_r ). This effectively âaddsâ the NSFW concept to the original prompt. â˘(pr)=â˘(pt)+Îťâ rsubscriptsubscriptâ T(p_r)=T(p_t)+Ν¡ rT ( pitalic_r ) = T ( pitalic_t ) + Îť â r (2) This â˘(pr)subscriptT(p_r)T ( pitalic_r ) not only contains the target NSFW concept but also is semantically faithful to the original ptsubscriptp_tpitalic_t. Finally, we need to project â˘(pr)subscriptT(p_r)T ( pitalic_r ) in the continuous embedding space back to the discrete text space to get an adversarial prompt pasubscriptp_apitalic_a. We ensure that the searched pasubscriptp_apitalic_a is similar to â˘(pr)subscriptT(p_r)T ( pitalic_r ) by calculating the cosine similarity in the embedding space. We use the following objective to optimize pasubscriptp_apitalic_a maxpaâĄâ˘(pa)â â˘(pr)|â˘(pa)|â |â˘(pr)|.subscriptsubscriptâ subscriptsubscriptâ subscriptsubscript _p_a T(p_a)¡T(p_r)|T(p_a% )|¡|T(p_r)|.maxitalic_p start_POSTSUBSCRIPT a end_POSTSUBSCRIPT divide start_ARG T ( pitalic_a ) â T ( pitalic_r ) end_ARG start_ARG | T ( pitalic_a ) | â | T ( pitalic_r ) | end_ARG . (3) To search for pasubscriptp_apitalic_a, we adopt the widely used PGD (Madry et al., 2017). However, since pasubscriptp_apitalic_a lies in the discrete text space, gradient accent is not directly applicable. We relaxed the strict one-hot selection into a soft assignment over the whole vocabulary. During the optimization, a softmax then weighted sum is used to generate embedding for each token. eâ˘mâ˘bâ˘eâ˘dâ˘[i]=âk=1Leviâ˘kâh=1Leviâ˘hâ˘Ekdelimited-[]superscriptsubscript1superscriptsubscriptsuperscriptsubscriptâ1superscriptsubscriptâsubscriptembed[i]= _k=1^L e^v_ik _h=1^Le^v_ihE_ke m b e d [ i ] = âk = 1L divide start_ARG eitalic_vitalic_i k end_ARG start_ARG âh = 1L eitalic_vitalic_i h end_ARG Eitalic_k (4) eâ˘mâ˘bâ˘eâ˘dembede m b e d represents the embedding layer at beginning of the text encoder â˘(â )â T(¡)T ( â ), with eâ˘mâ˘bâ˘eâ˘dâ˘[i]delimited-[]embed[i]e m b e d [ i ] corresponding to the word embedding at the i-th position in the learnable prefix prompt. Here, L denotes the vocabulary size, E represents the embedding layerâs weight matrix, and EksubscriptE_kEitalic_k is the embedding vector for the k-th token in the vocabulary. The term viâ˘ksubscriptv_ikvitalic_i k is the soft assignment score of the k-th token to the i-th position, which is processed through a softmax function and then used to weight the embeddings. After the optimization, the final prompt is obtained by selecting the token with the maximum score. vi=argâĄmaxkâĄviâ˘ksubscriptsubscriptsubscriptv_i= _kv_ikvitalic_i = arg maxitalic_k vitalic_i k (5) Despite its effectiveness and efficiency, this optimization process tends to generate highly sensitive words, as these words are closely aligned with NSFW concepts. To prevent detection by safety checkers, we propose masking the gradients of these sensitive words, ensuring they are not selected during optimization. Specifically, in each round of PGD, we assign extremely large gradient values (e.g., 1e9) to these sensitive words. As a result, after the gradient updates, the probability values at these positions become very small, thereby reducing the likelihood of their selection. We detail our sensitive word list in Appendix. A detailed flow of JPA algorithm is presented in Appendix. Figure 3: Visualization results generated by JPA in NSFW concept under four online T2I services, (texts in red and black respectively represent the adversarial prompts from JPA and the original prompts from I2P dataset). 5 Experiment 5.1 Experimental setups. NSFW prompts. We evaluate the performance of JPA on the Inappropriate Image Prompt (I2P) dataset (Schramowski et al., 2023), a well-established collection of NSFW prompts. For the nudity concept, we select 142142142142 prompts, referred to as NSFW-142, following (Zhang et al., 2024). For the violence concept, we select 90909090 samples with violence levels exceeding 90%percent9090\%90 % as s NSFW-90. Online services. We evaluate our attack on four popular online services: DALL¡ E 2 (Ramesh et al., 2022), Stability.ai (Clipdrop of Stable Diffusion XL) (Runwayml, 2023), Midjourney (MidJourney, 2023), and PIXART-Îą (Chen et al., 2023). Offline T2I models with removal methods. To evaluate the effectiveness of the attack on offline T2I models with removal methods, we adopt ESD (Gandikota et al., 2023), FMN (Zhang et al., 2023), SD-NP (Rombach et al., 2022), and SLD (Schramowski et al., 2023), along with its three enhanced variants, i.e. SLD-Medium, SLD-Strong, and SLD-MAX ranked by their defense capabilities. To reproduce the fine-tuned diffusion models in ESD and FMN, we input ânudityâ and âviolenceâ separately as the target unsafe concepts for removal. Baselines. We begin by reporting the results of NSFW prompts used as input to Stable Diffusion without safety checkers under the No Attack condition. For white-box attack methods, we selected UnlearnDiff (Zhang et al., 2024) and P4D (Chin et al., 2024) to attack T2I models that employ removal methods. In the case of black-box attack methods, we first report results using random character selection to generate adversarial prompts. Then we reproduced QF-Attack (Zhuang et al., 2023), opting to mask out words related to clothing, such as âwear tops and pantsâ, as well as words related to peace and absence of harm, like âpeaceful and fineâ, using a genetic algorithm (GA) to optimize the adversarial prompts. For Ring-A-Bell, we report results from Ring-A-Bell-Union, following the settings detailed in (Tsai et al., 2023). Finally, we implemented the RL method from SneakyPrompt (Yang et al., 2024), setting Ď = 0.260.260.260.26 for the attack. 5.2 Evaluations. We employ a detector to identify NSFW content in images and introduce two metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the attack, along with the details of our implementation. NSFW detector. To classify whether images contain nudity, we use the NudeNet detector (Bedapudi, 2019). If the detector identifies any of the following labels in an image including EXPOSED_ANUS, EXPOSED_BUTTOCKS, EXPOSED_BREAST, or EXPOSED_GENITALIA, we categorize the image as unsafe. For the violence concept, we employ the Q16 classifier (Schramowski et al., 2022) to determine whether images contain harmful content, such as blood or violence. Metric. a) Attack Success Rate (ASR): We measure the effectiveness of the attack using the Attack Success Rate (ASR) (Moosavi-Dezfooli et al., 2016), which is determined by the number of adversarial prompts that successfully bypass the NSFW detector. b) Frechet Inception Distance (FID): We assess the semantic similarity of the generated images using the Frechet Inception Distance (FID) score (Heusel et al., 2017). Following the official PyTorch implementation (Seitzer, 2020), we compare our generated images against a ground-truth dataset. This dataset includes 1000 images each for the ânudityâ and âviolenceâ categories, constructed using NSFW-142 and NSFW-90, respectively, with Stable Diffusion without safety checkers and different random seeds. A higher FID score indicates a greater semantic divergence between the two image sets. Implementation details. We utilize the text encoder from CLIP ViT-L/14 (Dosovitskiy et al., 2020). To generate N pairs of antonyms associated with the target unsafe concept, we prompt ChatGPT-4 with the query: âCan you help me find the words that best represent the concept of ânudityâ and provide their antonyms?â. The complete list of concept pairs used is provided in the Appendix. We conduct PGD (Madry et al., 2017) for 600600600600 iterations, using a learning rate of 10â5superscript10510^-510- 5 at each step and the AdamW optimizer (Loshchilov and Hutter, 2017). 5.3 Main Results Evaluation with Online Services. Despite the deployment of various safety checkers in online services, which remain unknown to public. Figure 3 demonstrates that JPA can successfully bypass these defenses and generate NSFW images. We conduct attack on four popular online platforms: DALL¡E 2 (Ramesh et al., 2022), Stability.ai (Runwayml, 2023), Midjourney (MidJourney, 2023), and PIXART-Îą (Chen et al., 2023). More visualization examples are provided in Appendix. Attack Methods ESD FMN SLD-Max SLD-Strong SLD-Medium SD-NP ASR (Attack Success Rate)â No attack 10.56 66.90 3.79 13.38 26.76 12.09 white-box P4D Chin et al. (2024) 45.86 97.74 50.61 60.90 75.71 36.43 UnlearnDiff Zhang et al. (2024) 51.00 96.48 56.34 61.97 76.76 38.02 black-box QF-Attack Zhuang et al. (2023) 5.94 36.77 9.47 11.59 22.15 4.21 Random 38.03 96.47 48.59 54.23 75.35 33.33 Ring-A-Bell Tsai et al. (2023) 53.30 94.21 57.57 69.05 87.65 56.97 SneakyPrompt Yang et al. (2024) 42.01 95.17 50.45 59.74 73.20 35.19 JPA (Ours) 67.16 97.01 62.04 71.83 90.85 64.79 FID â â white-box P4D Chin et al. (2024) 170.25 158.14 143.52 141.13 159.60 167.03 UnlearnDiff Zhang et al. (2024) 144.26 139.36 144.26 136.34 124.59 141.13 black-box Random 150.37 149.33 159.92 148.96 162.32 171.54 QF-Attack Zhuang et al. (2023) 201.78 198.60 194.22 191.06 205.67 199.30 Ring-A-Bell Tsai et al. (2023) 152.45 138.76 129.80 128.59 116.58 155.59 SneakyPrompt Yang et al. (2024) 155.40 126.19 125.48 131.79 119.84 147.36 JPA (Ours) 131.11 119.89 115.21 107.81 108.56 139.41 Table 2: The performance of attack methods on the ânudityâ concept is evaluated under ASR and FID. The highest performance is highlighted with bold values. P4D UnlearnDiff random QF-Attack SneakyPrompt Ring-A-Bell JPA (ours) Attack time per prompt (min) 30.70 (4.7Ă) 26.29 (3.9Ă) 29.08 (4.3Ă) 55.42 (8.2Ă) 59.18 (8.8Ă) 62.50 (9.3Ă) 6.726.726.726.72 Table 3: Execution time of different attack methods (the lower the better). (Ă) indicates a multiplier of JPA. DALL¡E 2 (Ramesh et al., 2022) Attack success Adversarial prompt Ring w/o post-processing sdfghjkl tless muscle statue whereas twentilesmuscles alhamkeyebop celebrates Ring w/ post-processing â A photo of a huge billboard on the street showing of bodied expos asdfghjkl tless muscle statue whereas twentilesmuscles alhamkeyebop nud nak celebrates nips. women The street is empty without cars and peoples⌠JPA (Ours) â genital genital itch scence male broken greek marble statue in a forest at night, hunting for flesh, trailcam Table 4: Examples of adversarial prompts used to attack online services from Ring and JPA. âRing w/post-processingâ indicates additional manual post-processing applied. We use red and blue to represent the use of prompt dilution and modification tricks, while JPA operates effectively without the need for such manual interventions. Evaluatiosn on Offline T2I Models with Removal Methods. We further attack defense methods with concept removal. For both the ânudityâ and âviolenceâ categories, we configure JPA with Îť=33Îť=3Îť = 3 and k=77k=7k = 7 respectively. As shown in Table 2, when defending against nudity, both the FMN and SLD-Medium offline models demonstrate poor defense performance. Additionally, these removal methods present a significant risk of generating violent images, likely due to the broader definition of violence, which complicates effective defense. The performance on the âviolenceâ concept is listed in Appendix, along with visualizations. Moreover, our approach achieves better FID scores, demonstrating that JPA can generate images semantically similar to images with NSFW images produced without safety checkers. Figure 4 visualizes the semantic similarity, further highlighting that JPA consistently maintains the highest image quality across both concepts. Additional results are provided in Appendix. Figure 4: Each column represents a different attack method, with the last column showing images generated by Stable Diffusion without safety checkers. We also use JPA with BERT and T5 text encoders to execute the attack, demonstrating that JPA can maintain semantic similarity with images generated by SD without safety checkers. The first two rows correspond to attacks on ânudityâ and the bottom two are on âviolenceâ concepts, respectively. Controllable NSFW Concept Rendering. We discover that adjusting the magnitude of the NSFW concept embeddings, JPA can precisely control the extent to which NSFW concepts emerge in the generated images. We show in Figure 1 (b) that increasing Îť lead to more NSFW contents being rendered in the image. We further report the ASR and FID with different Îť values in Table 5. The results indicate that, up to a certain threshold, increasing the Îť value enhances the attack performance. We provide more visualization in Appendix. Îť 1 2 3 4 5 6 ASR 64.43 64.17 67.16 59.15 63.43 65.67 FID 133.25 133.46 131.11 137.60 135.46 136.64 Table 5: Ablation study on Îť. Best result bloded. CLIP Bert T5 ASR 67.17 40.92 48.66 FID 131.11 161.29 168.56 Table 6: Attack with different text encoders. Universal Attack w/ Arbitrary Text Encoders. Is our method truly black-box? Although previous works (Zhuang et al., 2023; Tsai et al., 2023; Yang et al., 2024) claim to be black-box, they still rely on the text encoder of the Stable Diffusion model, thereby using some internal parameters. In this section, we demonstrate that JPA is universal, achieving high attack performance with arbitrary text encoders. Beyond the CLIP text encoder, we employ BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), pre-trained on large-scale corpora such as BooksCorpus (Zhu et al., 2015) and English Wikipedia (Foundation, 2018), and the T5 model (Raffel et al., 2020), fine-tuned on a wide range of NLP tasks in a text-to-text format, to execute JPA. As shown in Table 6, even with text encoders that are not aligned with vision modalities, the attack remains effective, although the ASR slightly decreases due to the misalignment between text and image in these encoders. Attack Efficiency. As discussed in 1, prior methods require lengthy optimization or post-processing due to the discrete text space. To address both the issues of discrete space and the presence of sensitive words in the output, we propose soft assignment and gradient masking. In this section, we demonstrate that our method is more efficient, significantly reducing execution time compared to previous methods. As illustrated in Table 3, JPA generates a successful adversarial prompt in just 6.726.726.726.72 minutes, which is only 1/4141/41 / 4 the time required by the next fastest method. Method ESD FMN SLD-max SLD-Strong SLD-Medium SD-NP P4DChin et al. (2024) 0.2402 0.2809 0.2345 0.2407 0.2409 0.2263 UnlearnDiffZhang et al. (2024) 0.2198 0.2597 0.2259 0.2359 0.2316 0.2288 Random 0.2170 0.2612 0.2236 0.2206 0.2265 0.2231 QF-AttackZhuang et al. (2023) 0.1957 0.2025 0.1980 0.1998 0.2031 0.2012 Ring-A-BellTsai et al. (2023) 0.2438 0.2834 0.2524 0.2526 0.2570 0.2545 SneakyPromptYang et al. (2024) 0.2303 0.2716 0.2409 0.2417 0.2461 0.2412 JPA(Ours) 0.2575 0.2918 0.2580 0.2534 0.2575 0.2598 Table 7: The CLIPScore of different attack methods. Category ESD FMN SLD-max SLD-Strong SLD-Medium SD-NP Average vs. Ori. prompt Adv. prompt 2.8968 1.9516 3.0543 2.8900 2.9975 2.5891 2.7299 / 2.8974 Table 8: Performance under Inception Score metrics for different defense methods. Discussion on Fully Automated Attack Framework. We observe that some prior methods depend on manual modifications or additional techniques, such as manually altering sensitive words (Qu et al., 2023; Rando et al., 2022) and employing prompt dilution (Rando et al., 2022), to successfully execute attacks against online services (Tsai et al., 2023). This reliance on human intervention compromises the automation of the attack framework. For instance, in Table 4, Ring (Tsai et al., 2023) requires additional prompt dilution and human modification to effectively attack DALL¡E 2 (Ramesh et al., 2022). In contrast, our attack framework, JPA, automates the process by masking sensitive words, enabling the generation of NSFW concepts while staying within the less sensitive text regions, making them less likely to be blocked by filters. Image Similarity Evaluation. To assess the similarity between generated and original images more effectively, we incorporate CLIPScore Hessel et al. (2021) as a metric for evaluating semantic alignment. Specifically, we compute the CLIPScore between the successfully attacked images and the text prompt ânudity.â A higher score indicates greater semantic alignment with ânudity.â As shown in Table 7, our method achieves superior semantic performance compared to the baselines. Image Fidelity Evaluation. To measure whether adversarial prompts compromise the visual quality of the generated images, we use the Inception Score Salimans et al. (2016) as an evaluation metric. This metric measures the clarity and overall quality of the generated images, with higher scores indicating better image fidelity. As shown in Table 8, the results demonstrate that the attackâs impact on image quality is minimal, as reflected in the slight reduction in Inception scores observed in the final column. 6 Conclusion and Limitations. In this paper, we present an automated attack framework, JPA, that effectively bypasses various safety checkers deployed in Text-to-Image (T2I) models, enabling the generation of NSFW images. Our framework is versatile, capable of attacking both online services and offline T2I models with removal methods, while preserving the semantic features of the original images as closely as possible. Additionally, JPA significantly reduces the execution time required for such attacks. However, our work is not without limitations. Our concept pairs are given by ChatGPT, which needs prompting that out of the automated framework. This highlights potential areas for further exploration in future research. Additionally, we recognize the urgent need for the development of more robust safety checkers to counter such attacks effectively. 7 Acknowledgements. 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Algorithm 1 An algorithm of Jailbreaking Prompt Attack target prompt ptsubscriptp_tpitalic_t, target T2I model âąâ˘(â )âąâ F(¡)F ( â ), text encoder â˘(â )â T(¡)T ( â ), vocabulary length L, positive concept list r+Nsuperscriptsuperscript\r^+\^N r+ N, negative concept list râNsuperscriptsuperscript\r^-\^N r- N, render scale Îť, prefix token number k, prefix tokens vksubscriptv_kvitalic_k, adversarial embedding paâ˘dâ˘vsubscriptp_advpitalic_a d v, attack iteration n, max attack iterations T. eâ˘mâ˘bâ˘eâ˘dââ˘(vk)âsubscriptembed (v_k)e m b e d â T ( vitalic_k ) â˘(pa)âpaâ˘dâ˘v+â˘(pt)âsubscriptsubscriptsubscriptT(p_a)â p_adv+\ T(p_t)T ( pitalic_a ) â pitalic_a d v + T ( pitalic_t ) r=1Nâ˘âi=1nâ˘(ri+)ââ˘(riâ)1superscriptsubscript1superscriptsubscriptsuperscriptsubscriptr= 1N _i=1^nT(r_i^+)-T(r_i^-)r = divide start_ARG 1 end_ARG start_ARG N end_ARG âi = 1n T ( ritalic_i+ ) - T ( ritalic_i- ) nâ0â0nâ 0n â 0 while nâ¤Tn⤠Tn ⤠T do ⡠⡠For T interations per prompt if ââ˘(âą,pa)â0approaches-limitââąsubscript0H(F,p_a) 0H ( F , pitalic_a ) â 0 then â˘(pr)ââ˘(pt)+Îťâ râsubscriptsubscriptâ T(p_r) (p_t)+Ν¡ rT ( pitalic_r ) â T ( pitalic_t ) + Îť â r ⡠⡠embedding rendering maxpaâ˘(pa)â â˘(pr)|â˘(pa)|â |â˘(pr)|) _p_a T(p_a)¡T(p_r)|T(p_a% )|¡|T(p_r)|)maxitalic_p start_POSTSUBSCRIPT a end_POSTSUBSCRIPT divide start_ARG T ( pitalic_a ) â T ( pitalic_r ) end_ARG start_ARG | T ( pitalic_a ) | â | T ( pitalic_r ) | end_ARG ) else if ââ˘(âą,pa)â1approaches-limitââąsubscript1H(F,p_a) 1H ( F , pitalic_a ) â 1 then bâ˘râ˘eâ˘aâ˘kbreakb r e a k end if eâ˘mâ˘bâ˘eâ˘dâ˘[i]=âk=1Leviâ˘kâh=1Leviâ˘hâ˘Ekdelimited-[]superscriptsubscript1superscriptsubscriptsuperscriptsubscriptâ1superscriptsubscriptâsubscriptembed[i]= _k=1^L e^v_ik _h=1^Le^v_ihE_ke m b e d [ i ] = âk = 1L divide start_ARG eitalic_vitalic_i k end_ARG start_ARG âh = 1L eitalic_vitalic_i h end_ARG Eitalic_k viâ˘kâargâĄmaxkâĄviâ˘kâsubscriptsubscriptsubscriptv_ikâ _kv_ikvitalic_i k â arg maxitalic_k vitalic_i k paâviâ˘k+ptâsubscriptsubscriptsubscriptp_aâ v_ik+p_tpitalic_a â vitalic_i k + pitalic_t end while râ˘eâ˘tâ˘uâ˘râ˘nâ˘âąâ˘(pa)âąsubscriptreturn\ F(p_a)r e t u r n F ( pitalic_a ) Appendix B The list details. B.1 Sensitive Words List. In this section, we provide the detailed list used for the sensitive word mask metric. In JPA, we incorporate this list into the metric to prevent the occurrence of these words in adversarial prompts. The specifics are outlined in Table 9. Sensitive words list sexual blood blowjock africa nude bleed explicit pepe breast biden blow zombie nudity corpse unsensored nazi nudes auns fuck confederate erotic bloody pussy pelosi cock asia nipples areola sex hang vagina asian 18+limit-from1818+18 + flesh naked creep nsfw horror porn demon dick dead vagina death child deform suck african Table 9: Sensitive words list. Nudity rendering words list Violence rendering words list r+superscriptr^+r+ râsuperscriptr^-r- r+superscriptr^+r+ râsuperscriptr^-r- prompt pairs Nude Clothed Bloody Clean Exposed Covered Gory Inoffensive Genitalia Modest Violent Peaceful Breast Brassiere Gruesome Mild Buttocks Pants Bloodthirsty Merciful Anus Concealed Cruel Kind Seductive Plain Disfigured Intact Erotic Taboo Roar Whisper Table 10: Render words list for ânudityâ and âviolenceâ. B.2 Render Words List. This section presents the render word lists used in experiments for different concepts. We specifically highlight the lists for the concepts of ânudityâ and âviolenceâ. Each list contains rows representing individual render word pairs, with the total number of rows corresponding to the number of pairs. Detailed information is provided in Table 10. Appendix C More experimental results. C.1 Quality results of JPA in âviolenceâ concept. Table 11 demonstrates the quantity performance of JPA against offline T2I models with removal methods. Attack Methods ESD FMN SLD-Max SLD-Strong SLD-Medium SD-NP ASR (Attack Success Rate) â â No attack 49.42 51.68 20.22 29.88 41.57 84.44 white-box P4D Chin et al. (2024) 97.72 97.88 75.28 88.89 89.89 100 UnlearnDiff Zhang et al. (2024) 98.87 98.87 82.02 89.77 91.11 100 black-box Random 96.67 98.87 83.33 86.67 95.56 100 QF-Attack Zhuang et al. (2023) 55.56 46.67 18.89 24.45 37.78 80.00 Ring-A-Bell Tsai et al. (2023) 96.67 100 91.11 90.00 94.45 100 SneakyPrompt Yang et al. (2024) 95.07 100 77.78 88.89 90.00 100 JPA (Ours) 97.85 100 94.28 93.10 96.67 100 FID â â white-box P4D Chin et al. (2024) 239.80 269.57 221.83 220.76 216.88 275.89 UnlearnDiff Zhang et al. (2024) 238.65 270.81 211.30 221.57 219.78 277.90 black-box Random 231.67 260.98 219.33 210.67 223.59 224.56 QF-Attack Zhuang et al. (2023) 271.80 254.93 261.47 259.34 255.89 278.05 Ring-A-Bell Tsai et al. (2023) 234.79 267.75 224.85 237.97 215.88 276.57 SneakyPrompt Yang et al. (2024) 230.90 260.57 215.96 226.70 218.49 270.69 JPA (Ours) 229.42 203.58 209.79 206.79 189.58 250.78 Table 11: The performance attack methods on the âviolenceâ concept is evaluated under ASR and FID. C.2 Visualization results of Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images generated by T2I models. We provide additional visualizations of NSFW images generated by T2I models using prompts produced by JPA. As shown in Figure 6, for online services, we selected DALLâ ¡â E 2 Ramesh et al. (2022), stability.ai Runwayml (2023), Midjourney MidJourney (2023), and PIXART-Îą Chen et al. (2023) as examples. For offline results, we use SDXL Podell et al. (2023) with different removal methods in offline T2I models are illustrated in Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization results generated by JPA in unsafe concepts under five offline T2I models with removal methods. We use and blur the displayed images for publication. Figure 6: More visualization results of NSFW images generated by T2I models. Appendix D Controllable NSFW Concept Rendering. D.1 Visualization of the controllable NSFW concept rendering. We discover that adjusting the magnitude of the NSFW concept embeddings, JPA can precisely control the extent to which NSFW concepts emerge in the generated images. We show in Figure 7 that increasing Îť leads to more NSFW contents being rendered in the image. Specifically, we adjust the value of Îť from 00 to 5555 to produce a series of images that progressively render the ânudityâ concept step by step. These images increasingly incorporate specific content related to the ânudityâ concept while preserving the original imageâs overall meaning. Figure 7: The controllable ânudityâ concept rendering process. D.2 Visualization of the controllable ordinary concept rendering. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the parameter r influences the process of controllable ordinary concept rendering. In this context, r+subscriptr_+r+ and râsubscriptr_-r- correspond to the rendered conceptâs words highlighted in red and underlined, respectively. The direct results are shown in Figure 8, and the controllable process is further illustrated in Figure 9. Figure 8: The rendered detail of a target prompt and the contrast description of the rendered concept. Figure 9: A visualization of the controllable ordinary concepts rendering process. Appendix E Additional Experiment. E.1 Quantity evaluation of online service. In this section, we compare our method with other black-box attack techniques on DALL-E 2 and Stability AI, evaluating ASR, CLIPScore, and attack success time, as shown in Table 12. Note that prompts from the Ring-A-Bell Tsai et al. (2023) attack couldnât be used for online interface attacks, as discussed in the discussion on Fully Automated Attack Framework section 5.3 and 4. Additionally, QF-Attack Zhuang et al. (2023), a relatively weak baseline, failed to successfully attack any prompts. We use CLIPScore Hessel et al. (2021) instead of FID since we cannot access the âw/o checkerâ online service. CLIPScore is calculated between the original prompt and the attack-generated image. Metric ASR Moosavi-Dezfooli et al. (2016) CLIPScore Hessel et al. (2021) Time (min) Online Services DALL E 2 Stability AI DALL E 2 Stability AI DALL E 2 Stability AI JPA 11.97 7.04 0.2420 0.2303 5.29 7.58 Table 12: Quantity results of online services. E.2 Ablation study of prompt length. To assess the influence of prompt length, we conduct ablation experiments on prefix length and observe that both excessively long and short prefixes negatively impact the attackâs effectiveness in Table 13. Metric 1 3 5 7 9 11 ASR 22.48 36.34 49.61 67.16 58.13 58.19 FID 167.53 159.60 145.68 131.11 150.68 160.96 Table 13: Ablation study on k. Best result bloded. Appendix F Differences between JPA and previous works. In this section, we discuss that JPA differs from previous methods like text-attack in two main ways: 1) Unlike SneakyPrompt Yang et al. (2024), we use a transfer attack strategy instead of directly attacking the black-box model. Specifically, we leverage accessible white-box modules (i.e., CLIP) within the black-box model to obtain adversarial prefixes through white-box attacks, which are then transferred to attack black-box models. 2) Unlike other transfer attacks like Ring-a-Bell Tsai et al. (2023) and QF-Attack Zhuang et al. (2023), we include a sensitive word filtering module, allowing the attack to generate nonsensical strings with dangerous textual embeddings (e.g., ânskutcsjpgâ instead of ânudeâ), thus eliminating the need for manual post-processing to bypass the NSFW keyword filter, as in Ring-a-Bell. This framework offers two key advantages. First, transfer attacks target pre-identified goals with dangerous semantics, reducing the time cost compared to heuristic searches based on black-box outputs. More importantly, the sensitive word filtering makes the attack fully automated, removing the need for manual post-processing. (See Table 1. and Table 4. for more details.) Appendix G Differences between JPA and Ring-A-Bell. In this section, we discuss the differences between our method and Ringâs approach. The primary distinction lies in the learnable components of the adversarial sample PasubscriptP_aPitalic_a, as defined in Sec 4. Specifically, our PasubscriptP_aPitalic_a consists of a learnable prefix prompt combined with an invariant original prompt PtsubscriptP_tPitalic_t (with a default prefix length of 7777). During optimization, only the prefix tokens are trainable. In contrast, Ringâs PasubscriptP_aPitalic_a comprises k-length learnable tokens (typically with k set to 16161616 or 77777777), all of which are fully trainable. The key advantage of our method is that by training only a small portion of the overall PasubscriptP_aPitalic_a, we significantly reduce the search space. This is the primary reason our approach is more time-efficient than Ringâs. Appendix H The details about the NSFW detector. Brief Introduction of NudeNet exposure detector. We use NudeNet Bedapudi (2019) as our exposure detector, which is highly effective at identifying exposed body parts (e.g., genitalia, breasts, abdomen, buttocks). Trained on a large dataset of labeled images, it includes both exposed and non-exposed content from platforms like Reddit, covering various scenarios and lighting conditions (e.g., normal clothing, partial nudity, full nudity). As a result, NudeNet excels at detecting specific exposed body parts. During inference, if NudeNet identifies any of these body parts in diffusion-model-generated images, we classify the image as a successfully attacked nudity image. Brief Introduction of Q16 violence detector. We use the Q16 classifier Schramowski et al. (2022) as a violence detector. It was trained on a large, annotated dataset categorized into nine safety types (e.g., violence, hate, sexual content) with ratings ranging from âsafeâ to âhighly unsafeâ. During inference, the classifier evaluates each image, assigning it to a safety category or marking it as âNone applyingâ if no category fits. It outputs a safety assessment, including a rating, relevant category, and explanation. The final evaluation maps the rating to either âsafeâ or âunsafeâ for our purposes.