LEAT: Towards Robust Deepfake Disruption in Real-World Scenarios via
  Latent Ensemble Attack
Joonkyo Shim Hyunsoo Yoon
Deepfakes, malicious visual contents created by generative models, pose an
increasingly harmful threat to society. To proactively mitigate deepfake
damages, recent studies have employed adversarial perturbation to disrupt
deepfake model outputs. However, previous approaches primarily focus on
generating distorted outputs based on only predetermined target attributes,
leading to a lack of robustness in real-world scenarios where target attributes
are unknown. Additionally, the transferability of perturbations between two
prominent generative models, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and
Diffusion Models, remains unexplored. In this paper, we emphasize the
importance of target attribute-transferability and model-transferability for
achieving robust deepfake disruption. To address this challenge, we propose a
simple yet effective disruption method called Latent Ensemble ATtack (LEAT),
which attacks the independent latent encoding process. By disrupting the latent
encoding process, it generates distorted output images in subsequent generation
processes, regardless of the given target attributes. This target
attribute-agnostic attack ensures robust disruption even when the target
attributes are unknown. Additionally, we introduce a Normalized Gradient
Ensemble strategy that effectively aggregates gradients for iterative gradient
attacks, enabling simultaneous attacks on various types of deepfake models,
involving both GAN-based and Diffusion-based models. Moreover, we demonstrate
the insufficiency of evaluating disruption quality solely based on pixel-level
differences. As a result, we propose an alternative protocol for
comprehensively evaluating the success of defense. Extensive experiments
confirm the efficacy of our method in disrupting deepfakes in real-world
scenarios, reporting a higher defense success rate compared to previous
methods.