Why keep provenance records when an artifact carries a watermark?
A detectable signal cannot describe every transformation, collaborator or later experiment. Keep versioned records that connect an artifact to its origin and subsequent handling. The mark and the documentation answer overlapping questions, but neither should silently become a substitute for the other when a research claim is reviewed.
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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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