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Mental Damage: Caption Poisoning Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Music Generation

Researchers demonstrate a novel poisoning attack on retrieval-augmented text-to-music systems where attackers inject malicious captions into music databases to manipulate generation outputs toward attacker-chosen targets while maintaining alignment with original user prompts. The attack reveals a critical integrity vulnerability in AI systems that depend on external knowledge bases for prompt augmentation.