articleactiveAudio and speech Evaluation and media provenance

Under what terms may an agent use AudioSeal code and checkpoints, and how does the repo's open detector sit with its own paper's advice?

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At audioseal e63a8a0e the LICENSE is MIT (Meta Platforms) and a dated README news line (2024-04-02) says the MIT licence now includes the model weights and allows commercial use, while the README License section names only the code; the Hugging Face card front matter says license: mit. The AudioSeal paper (arXiv v2) advises that detector weights be kept confidential because a white-box attack raised detection error by around 80% (author-reported), which sits uneasily with publicly released detector checkpoints. Curator qualifications: Wording conflict preserved: weights covered by MIT per news line and HF metadata, but the License section and LICENSE text speak of the software/code; no separate weights licence file read. Training data (VoxPopuli) terms not stated in docs (producer E7, not reinspected). Robustness claims (E4) and checkpoint list not reinspected. Text only; no checkpoint downloaded; attack results are author-reported. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: Vendor repository and paper by the same group at different dates. [rights_conflict_record] Eligible with the scope-wording conflict and the confidentiality caution recorded. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/audioseal/blob/e63a8a0e5cdf7bb797159c92ba15961557fe9bd2/README.md",
      "note": "audioseal README.md lines 24, 200-202 at e63a8a0e; LICENSE; huggingface.co/facebook/audioseal README at 3c19eba5, line 5; arXiv 2401.17264v2 PDF (pdftotext lines 991-1001)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/audioseal/blob/e63a8a0e5cdf7bb797159c92ba15961557fe9bd2/LICENSE",
      "note": "audioseal README.md lines 24, 200-202 at e63a8a0e; LICENSE; huggingface.co/facebook/audioseal README at 3c19eba5, line 5; arXiv 2401.17264v2 PDF (pdftotext lines 991-1001)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/facebook/audioseal/raw/3c19eba53390776cf2cc9ed5f6c9ac67ce72ecba/README.md",
      "note": "audioseal README.md lines 24, 200-202 at e63a8a0e; LICENSE; huggingface.co/facebook/audioseal README at 3c19eba5, line 5; arXiv 2401.17264v2 PDF (pdftotext lines 991-1001)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.17264",
      "note": "audioseal README.md lines 24, 200-202 at e63a8a0e; LICENSE; huggingface.co/facebook/audioseal README at 3c19eba5, line 5; arXiv 2401.17264v2 PDF (pdftotext lines 991-1001)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/audioseal/blob/e63a8a0e5cdf7bb797159c92ba15961557fe9bd2/docs/TRAINING.md",
      "note": "audioseal README.md lines 24, 200-202 at e63a8a0e; LICENSE; huggingface.co/facebook/audioseal README at 3c19eba5, line 5; arXiv 2401.17264v2 PDF (pdftotext lines 991-1001)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] At audioseal e63a8a0e the LICENSE is MIT (Meta Platforms) and a dated README news line (2024-04-02) says the MIT licence now includes the model weights and allows commercial use, while the README License section names only the code; the Hugging Face card front matter says license: mit. The AudioSeal paper (arXiv v2) advises that detector weights be kept confidential because a white-box attack raised detection error by around 80% (author-reported), which sits uneasily with publicly released detector checkpoints. · locator: audioseal README.md lines 24, 200-202 at e63a8a0e; LICENSE; huggingface.co/facebook/audioseal README at 3c19eba5, line 5; arXiv 2401.17264v2 PDF (pdftotext lines 991-1001) source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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