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This fits into a larger trend where academic and scientific institutions are grappling with AI's role in authorship and verification. As AI-generated content proliferates, demand for cryptographic proof of origin, timestamping, and decentralized identity will rise—areas where blockchain protocols (e.g., Arweave, Filecoin, Ethereum-based attestation services) are building infrastructure.

A Nature article argues that debates over AI authorship miss a deeper shift in how scholarly knowledge is produced.