Assemblage: Chipping Away at Censorship with Generative Steganography
Authors: Tushar M. Jois (City College of New York), Cora Rowena Ruiz (City College of New York), Gabriel Kaptchuk (University of Maryland, College Park)
Year: 2026
Issue: 1
Pages: 33–42
Abstract: Increasing Internet censorship has led to developments in steganography that are promising pathways to build circumvention technologies. We present Assemblage, a novel scheme which applies these developments to encode messages within unassuming AI-generated images. Assemblage communicates messages using popular public platforms for these images as rendezvous points, effectively circumventing the censor and opening communication.
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