Challenge: Existing watermarking algorithms focus on defending against paraphrase and piggyback spoofing attacks, which can inject harmful content, compromise reliability, and undermine trust in attribution.
Approach: They propose an algorithm capable of defending against paraphrase and spoofing attacks.
Outcome: Experiments on large language models and language models show that DualGuard is the first watermarking algorithm capable of defending against both paraphrase and spoofing attacks.

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