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Are Classical Clone Detectors Good Enough For the AI Era?
Ajmain Inqiad Alam, Palash Roy, Farouq Al-omari, Chanchal Roy, Banani Roy, Kevin Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25754

Are Classical Clone Detectors Good Enough For the AI Era?
The increasing adoption of AI-generated code has reshaped modern software development, introducing syntactic and semantic variations in cloned code. Unlike traditional human-written clones, AI-generated clones exhibit systematic syntactic patterns and semantic differences learned from large-scale training data. This shift presents new challenges for classical code clone detection (CCD) tools, which have historically been validated primarily on human-authored codebases and optimized to detect sy…