What should a negative watermark result mean to a reviewer?
It should be interpreted against the detector’s coverage and tested conditions. Absence of a detected signal does not establish an artifact’s complete origin. A reviewer should retain the result, the method used and the uncertainty, then consider other provenance evidence before drawing a stronger conclusion about how the artifact was produced.
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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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