Synthesis Smuggling：LLM 输出中恶意隐写个人属性推断的新威胁模型
Synthesis Smuggling: Maliciously Hiding Inferred Personal Attributes in LLM Outputs
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arXiv 论文提出 Synthesis Smuggling 威胁模型：对抗性 LLM 从用户日常求助交互中推断敏感信息，并以隐形字符或用词选择等方式隐写进看似正常的生成内容中。研究训练了两个开源权重模型，从对话线索推断性别和年龄段标签并编码，用户分享邮件、社交媒体帖子等内容时便可能无意泄露这些信息。
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Abstract:We propose Synthesis Smuggling, a novel threat model in which an adversarial LLM infers sensitive information about a user from routine assistance-seeking interactions and steganographically encodes that into innocuous-looking model-generated content. The user may then unknowingly transmit that information by sharing the generated artifact, say as an email, social-media post, or message, through ordinary communication channels. An adversary monitoring these channels can discover this information. We demonstrate this threat by training two open-weight models to infer gender and age-group labels from conversational cues and encode their predictions using invisible characters or word choices. These results show that user-shared model outputs can become a covert channel for personal inferences, even when the model itself has no direct means of contacting an adversary.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2611.17280 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2611.17280v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2611.17280 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Gautam Galada [view email]
[v1]
Thu, 12 Nov 2026 18:51:05 UTC (2,090 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.AI · arxiv.org