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What Git Does Not Record: Provenance Legibility in Two AI-Assisted Research Repositories

An audit of two single-investigator AI-assisted research repositories finds that Git does not record the provenance needed to answer publishers' and funders' growing requests for authors to disclose how AI tools contributed to computational research. The study asks what a repository can actually supply when an author or auditor looks there for that answer, and reports that the version-control record falls short.

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Publishers and funders increasingly ask authors to disclose how AI tools contributed to a piece of research. In computational work the repository is where an author or an auditor would look for the answer, and we ask what it can actually supply. We audit two single-investigator repositories by the s

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