GenAI Confessions: Black-box Membership Inference for Generative Image Models

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Main Authors: Bohacek, Matyas, Farid, Hany
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author Bohacek, Matyas
Farid, Hany
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Farid, Hany
contents From a simple text prompt, generative-AI image models can create stunningly realistic and creative images bounded, it seems, by only our imagination. These models have achieved this remarkable feat thanks, in part, to the ingestion of billions of images collected from nearly every corner of the internet. Many creators have understandably expressed concern over how their intellectual property has been ingested without their permission or a mechanism to opt out of training. As a result, questions of fair use and copyright infringement have quickly emerged. We describe a method that allows us to determine if a model was trained on a specific image or set of images. This method is computationally efficient and assumes no explicit knowledge of the model architecture or weights (so-called black-box membership inference). We anticipate that this method will be crucial for auditing existing models and, looking ahead, ensuring the fairer development and deployment of generative AI models.
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spellingShingle GenAI Confessions: Black-box Membership Inference for Generative Image Models
Bohacek, Matyas
Farid, Hany
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
Machine Learning
From a simple text prompt, generative-AI image models can create stunningly realistic and creative images bounded, it seems, by only our imagination. These models have achieved this remarkable feat thanks, in part, to the ingestion of billions of images collected from nearly every corner of the internet. Many creators have understandably expressed concern over how their intellectual property has been ingested without their permission or a mechanism to opt out of training. As a result, questions of fair use and copyright infringement have quickly emerged. We describe a method that allows us to determine if a model was trained on a specific image or set of images. This method is computationally efficient and assumes no explicit knowledge of the model architecture or weights (so-called black-box membership inference). We anticipate that this method will be crucial for auditing existing models and, looking ahead, ensuring the fairer development and deployment of generative AI models.
title GenAI Confessions: Black-box Membership Inference for Generative Image Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06399