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One Watermark Survived; the Other Broke

A robust signal tracked provenance while a fragile companion signaled reader-visible tampering.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-16-017
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Summary

A robust signal tracked provenance while a fragile companion signaled reader-visible tampering.

Independent keys and seeding windows produced three detector outcomes: intact, tampered or unwatermarked. Tests on two models and two prompt datasets reported the strongest tamper detection among compared methods while preserving competitive attribution robustness.

Why it matters

A robust signal tracked provenance while a fragile companion signaled reader-visible tampering.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. A robust signal tracked provenance while a fragile companion signaled reader-visible tampering.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-16-019

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.12713arXiv · primary research

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