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Safeguarding Multimodal Knowledge Copyright in the RAG-as-a-Service Environment

Researchers have developed AQUA, the first watermarking framework designed to protect image copyright in Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. The framework addresses a critical gap in protecting visual content within RAG-as-a-Service platforms by embedding semantic signals into synthetic images that survive the retrieval-to-generation process.