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Code provenance

Who or what wrote a piece of code, how to show it, and what detectors can and cannot tell you. Answers cite the papers and records they rely on.

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    What should a provenance record for copied code include?

    Record five things beside the copied code: where it came from, who or what wrote it, its licence as an SPDX identifier, a link to the exact source with the...

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    A detector flagged code written in 2019 as AI. What now?

    Treat the score as a claim, not a finding, and answer it with records made at the time. Published research says AI code detectors perform poorly on source...

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    Can you prove you wrote a piece of code yourself?

    Not with certainty, and not with a detector score. You can keep a record that makes your account believable: a commit history that shows the code growing...

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