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pith:PQG2PCLR

pith:2023:PQG2PCLRYZU4DLGJSAH7C3ZQB5

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Watermarks in the Sand: Impossibility of Strong Watermarking for Generative Models

Benjamin L. Edelman, Boaz Barak, Daniele Venturi, Danilo Francati, Giuseppe Ateniese, Hanlin Zhang

arxiv:2311.04378 v5 · 2023-11-07 · cs.LG · cs.CL · cs.CR

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:10:44.538958Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7c0da78971c669c1acc9900ff16f300f51a57aa42b42ac8c7ddb3b0966fc43d9

Aliases

arxiv: 2311.04378 · arxiv_version: 2311.04378v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.04378 · pith_short_12: PQG2PCLRYZU4 · pith_short_16: PQG2PCLRYZU4DLGJ · pith_short_8: PQG2PCLR

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PQG2PCLRYZU4DLGJSAH7C3ZQB5 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 7c0da78971c669c1acc9900ff16f300f51a57aa42b42ac8c7ddb3b0966fc43d9

Canonical record JSON

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    "submitted_at": "2023-11-07T22:52:54Z",
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