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On Seeding Watermarks to Detect Verbatim LLM Copy-Paste Responses

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arXiv:2605. 16336v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have made fluent essay writing, code drafting, and quiz answering instantly available to students at every level, from secondary school through graduate study.

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