@inproceedings{pletenev-2026-perturbation, title = "Perturbation, Not Provenance: Why Activation Steering Does Not Make a Robust Text Watermark", author = "Pletenev, Sergey", editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o and Shu, Raphael and Drozd, Aleksandr and Akula, Arjun and Rogers, Anna and Giorgi, Salvatore and Benton, Adrian", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.16/", pages = "120--126", ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4" }