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Style, Not Self: Surface Cues Explain Zero-Shot Code Attribution by Large Language Models
If a language model can recognize code it wrote, it may favor that code as a judge, and instances of one model monitoring each other could collude. We test this zero-shot on current commercial models. Five LLMs generate solutions to MBPP, HumanEval, and DS-1000, seven more to MBPP, and models act as evaluators in four …