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Model alignment focuses on preventing accidental harms, not intentional ones
Technical approaches like RLHF have limitations but are effective against casual adversaries
Model alignment is just one aspect of defense, alongside productization and other strategies

A Sponge attack against AI aims to confuse, distract, or overwhelm the AI system with irrelevant or nonsensical information.
Types of Sponge attacks include flooding attacks, adversarial examples, poisoning attacks, deceptive inputs, and social engineering attacks.
Mitigating a Sponge attack involves strategies like input validation, anomaly detection, adversarial training, rate limiting, monitoring, security best practices, updates, and user education.

Blurring or masking attacks against AI involve manipulating input data like images or videos to deceive AI systems while keeping content recognizable to humans.
Common types of blurring and masking attacks against AI include Gaussian blur, motion blur, median filtering, noise addition, occlusion, patch/sticker, and adversarial perturbation attacks.
Blurring or masking attacks can lead to degraded performance, security risks, safety concerns, loss of trust, financial/reputational damage, and legal/regulatory implications in AI systems.

A watermark removal attack against AI involves removing unique identifiers from digital images or videos, leading to unauthorized use and distribution of copyrighted content. This is illegal and can have legal consequences.
Types of watermark removal attacks include image processing, machine learning, adversarial attacks, copy-move attacks, and blurring/masking attacks. These methods violate intellectual property rights.
Mitigation strategies for watermark removal attacks include using robust and invisible watermarks, applying multiple watermarks, using detection tools, enforcing copyright laws, and educating users about the risks.

Text-based attacks against AI target natural language processing systems like chatbots and virtual assistants by manipulating text to exploit vulnerabilities.
Various types of text-based attacks include misclassification, adversarial examples, evasion attacks, poisoning attacks, and hidden text attacks which deceive AI systems with carefully crafted text.
Text-based attacks against AI can lead to misinformation, security breaches, bias and discrimination, legal violations, and loss of trust, highlighting why organizations need to implement measures to detect and prevent such attacks.

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A Bias Exploitation attack against AI manipulates an AI system's output by exploiting biases in its algorithms, leading to skewed and inaccurate results with potentially harmful consequences.
Types of Bias Exploitation attacks include data poisoning, adversarial attacks, model inversion, backdoor attacks, and membership inference attacks - all aim to exploit biases in AI systems.
Mitigating Bias Exploitation attacks involves using diverse and representative data, regularly auditing and updating AI systems, including ethical considerations in the design process, and educating users and stakeholders.

People spreading Trump-oriented election disinformation generally believe their claims
Different types of media affect behavior change for COVID-19 vaccination campaigns
Encouraging fact-checking can influence recommendation algorithms

Adversarial attacks against AI involve crafting sneaky input data to confuse AI systems and make them produce incorrect results.
Different types of adversarial attacks include methods like FGSM, PGD, and DeepFool, each aiming to manipulate AI models in different ways.
Mitigating adversarial attacks involves strategies like data augmentation, adversarial training, gradient masking, and ongoing research collaborations.