arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-01
The Illusion of High Utility in Safety Alignment of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Adeel Yousaf, Soumik Ghosh, James Beetham, Amrit Singh Bedi, Mubarak Shah
Safety alignment of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models aims to suppress harmful generations while preserving utility on benign prompts. Recent methods often appear to deliver high safety with high utility, but this conclusion rests largely on coarse global utility metrics (e.g.…