arXiv Machine Learning By Fotis Koutsikos, Ioannis Prokopiou, Spyridon Kantarelis, Vassilis Lyberatos, Pantelis Vikatos, Athanasios Aidinis, Themos Stafylakis, Athanasios Voulodimos, Giorgos Stamou

Towards AI-Generated Music Plagiarism Detection as a Version Identification Problem

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The paper addresses the challenge of detecting plagiarism in music generated by AI, noting that traditional binary notions of plagiarism are insufficient due to nuanced musical elements. It evaluates whether existing music version identification models, originally designed for human covers, can transfer to human-to-AI plagiarism detection. The authors introduce COPYCAT, a large benchmark of 350,654 pairs derived from real plagiarism cases and augmented with generative re‑synthesis and DSP obfuscations, and demonstrate that a supervised embedding‑shift approach significantly improves detection performance over simple distance thresholding.

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