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Reverse Prompt Engineering in Generative AI: A Baseline for Deepfake, Deception and Disinformation Mitigation

Nov 2026 · Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Deepfake, Deception, and Disinformation Security · 0 citations · 8 references
Misinformation and Its Impacts Digital Media Forensic Detection

Abstract

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has democratised content creation while scaling systemic threats in Deepfakes, Deception, and Disinformation (D3). As traditional content detection and watermarking are increasingly bypassed, this paper presents a position and baseline synthesis of Reverse Prompt Engineering (RPE) as a defensive capability. RPE inverts the generative pipeline to infer plausible instruction prompts and support, rather than definitively proving source-model attribution. Grounded in threat telemetry, we synthesise representative RPE frameworks while explicitly delineating the evidentiary limits of prompt recovery, attribution, and content provenance. We further evaluate RPE across public information, legal, and policy/governance viewpoints, analyse key technical limitations such as cross-modal generalisation, and outline a research roadmap to establish RPE as a cornerstone of digital provenance and AI accountability.

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