How should a team evaluate a proposed provenance gate?
Define what decision a match will trigger and what happens when the result is disputed. Measure misses and false positives on representative material, and provide an independent review path. A gate that looks accurate in isolation may still cause harm if its uncertainty disappears from the surrounding decision process.
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The AI Watermark Is Moving From Pixels Into ProteinsA proof-of-concept watermark for generated protein data raises useful provenance questions while leaving detection limits clear.
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