Summary of Is Your Paper Being Reviewed by An Llm? Investigating Ai Text Detectability in Peer Review, By Sungduk Yu et al.
Is Your Paper Being Reviewed by an LLM? Investigating AI Text Detectability in Peer Review
by Sungduk Yu, Man Luo, Avinash Madasu, Vasudev Lal, Phillip Howard
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This study investigates the ability of existing AI text detection algorithms to distinguish between peer reviews written by humans and large language models (LLMs). The researchers found that current approaches fail to identify many LLM-written reviews without producing a high number of false positive classifications. To address this issue, they proposed a new detection approach that surpasses existing methods in identifying GPT-4o written peer reviews at low levels of false positives. Their work highlights the difficulty of accurately identifying AI-generated text at the individual review level, emphasizing the need for new tools and methods to detect this type of unethical application of generative AI. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks into how well AI can tell apart human-written peer reviews from those written by big language models. The team found that current AI algorithms are not very good at doing this without also mistakenly identifying many real human-written reviews as fake. To solve this problem, they created a new way to detect LLM-written reviews that works better than the old methods and is less likely to make mistakes. This study shows how hard it is to tell apart AI-generated text from real human text when looking at individual reviews, which means we need new tools to stop people using AI in an unfair way. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt
