VETO: Towards Protecting Images From Frontier AI Editing

arXiv:2607.27292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of powerful, accessible image-editing models such as FLUX.2 has brought high-fidelity editing within broad reach. Their capabilities now extend beyond localized modifications to extracting and recontextualizing objects and identities in entirely new scenes. By allowing prompt and generation tokens to attend directly to reference-image tokens, modern models blur the boundary between conventional editing and text-to-image synthesis. This exp...