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An Experimental Study on Attacks and Vulnerabilities of Text Watermarks

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Results show that the copy–paste attack degrades watermark detectability when using very sparingly and only short sentences are used, while deletion becomes effective only at extreme levels on short texts, and underscore the need for future watermark designs to prioritise resilience to semantic and cross-lingual transformations.

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