Collect provider samples from Higgsfield, Runway and Dreamina plus Google
Photos, Gemini, Grok and YouTube re-encodes into data/captures/2026-09 with
a hash-checked manifest, and use them to fix attribution and false positives:
- Attribute aggregator outputs: Higgsfield job metadata, Dreamina's
re-signed manifests, Runway's own C2PA signer, TC260 video producers.
- Veto any visible video mark when a valid C2PA claim names another vendor
(a Gemini Omni clip read as Sora on steam), and gate Kling and Hailuo
matches on edge, anchor and white-label evidence.
- Veto the Gemini sparkle when trusted provenance names another vendor.
- Report SynthID as present for Google Photos AI edits: Google's checker
found it on all four measured edits, though manifests record no action.
- Add Vidu video and Wan image marks, TC260 audio placements, and record
the AIGC key in metadata records.
- Document the research sweep, the Dreamina badge decision, and verified
Google statements on SynthID in Photos.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extend the development-only benchmark family from images to audio and
video, and close four research directions from the watermark-landscape
map with local, revision-pinned evidence.
Benchmark schema: media_type audio and video rows, audioseal and
videoseal adapters with media-checked adapter binding, sample-domain
audio fidelity (SNR with unbounded_identical), frame-domain video
fidelity (mean PSNR, changed-frame fraction), and per-frame temporal
evidence in videoseal detection records. The report accepts all three
media types and carries SNR columns.
Audio: shared pinned AudioSeal oracle, synthetic and system-voice
speech cohorts with matched negatives, codec, noise, removed, and
forged arms, and the provenance experiment proving visual-only video
cleaning leaves the audio bitstream and watermark verdict invariant.
Video: TorchScript-only VideoSeal oracle (the pip package is unusable
on macOS arm64 and its loader resolves paths relative to cwd), video
cohort with crf/scale/fps attacks and four-state arms, temporal
evaluation measuring the crf decay curve, the frame-aggregation matrix
(computed locally after finding the TorchScript build ignores the
aggregation argument), and real provider clips as carriers.
Forgery: double-embedding study showing the last writer wins completely
under both oracles, scoped remover-trace probe, and the forged/
removed cohort arms encoding each scheme's correct expected verdict
(presence rule for audioseal, message rule for videoseal).
C2PA resolution: measured the five vendors' resolver contracts and the
C2PA 2.2 18.10.5 privacy gradient; product decision recorded that this
tool never resolves over the network. A registry guard pins the
published resolution-API set.
Gate: ruff and pyright src/ clean, 2114 passed / 3 skipped; maintain.sh
stops only on the known unfixed lightning 2.6.5 CVEs, pre-existing.
