The article reads to me as largely LLM generated. I checked several sections with Pangram and it appears to agree that it’s either entirely AI generated, or at least 100% AI assisted.
I’m fine with the idea of AI assistance, but I agree the quality is low and this needed a bit more editing. I have my own list of gripes that include not defining terms that are used, text for tables and figures being repeated in the body and the captions, contradictions and non-sequiturs, and just AI’s real watermark of getting lost in details, using clever terminology, having a hard time being concise, and being unable to use plain and clear language.
I think they goofed on the conclusion: “These results do not argue against watermarking for provenance. They show that provenance and behavioral stability are separate properties.”
The article’s entire point is that stability depends on provenance techniques, therefore the results purport to show they are not separate properties. Oops.
Also, it’s not AI’s fault that URLs in the references section aren’t clickable. Come on.