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by liftbigweights 2756 days ago
> it will be pretty easy to automate attribution.

Yours is a valid concern, but people can also fool attribution software easily. You could even write software that alters your paper into a few different people's writing style. That will render any attribution process useless. Just like you can disassemble code, you can obfuscate it.

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You can fool current attribution software easily. It gets better over time and what you're describing is essentially leads to an arms race of obfuscation software versus attribution software. I wouldn't bet that current obfuscation software would be able to permanently hide all traces of my own composition while keeping the paper coherent.