Burstiness Was Measured Wrong, and Prompting Cannot Aim It
Copyright 2026 Dicorose Angelo (Metaventions AI) and Vittoria Lanzo

The research code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE).
The published author name Dico Angelo is used in the paper citation.

The accepted paper is distributed under CC BY 4.0, as recorded by OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/forum?id=1E20ig92Zi

The recovered dataset archive is preserved unchanged from the submitted
research artifacts. It includes Wikinews articles (2016-2021), attributed to
Wikinews contributors under CC BY 2.5. The frozen baseline records each
article's headline, date and source_url, where contributor history is available.
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Generated benchmark texts are machine-generated research outputs, not
human-authored articles. Provider and model identities are recorded in the
benchmark metadata and dataset filenames. In particular, Kimi K2.6 outputs
are attributed to Moonshot AI. This release does not relicense model weights
or third-party generated outputs under Apache-2.0, nor provide a blanket
permission for downstream training or commercial use.

See THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md and data/released/README.md for provenance,
availability and attribution details. Earlier controller-project license
ledgers do not describe the contents of this publication release.
