Summary of A Practical Examination Of Ai-generated Text Detectors For Large Language Models, by Brian Tufts et al.
A Practical Examination of AI-Generated Text Detectors for Large Language Models
by Brian Tufts, Xuandong Zhao, Lei Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Dec 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 Machine learning educators can expect this paper to evaluate the effectiveness of popular machine-generated content detectors in identifying AI-generated text falsely attributed to human authors. The study assesses various detectors, including RADAR, Wild, T5Sentinel, Fast-DetectGPT, PHD, LogRank, and Binoculars, on domains, datasets, and models they have not previously encountered. To simulate practical adversarial attacks, the researchers employ prompting strategies and demonstrate that even moderate efforts can evade detection with significant success. The paper highlights the importance of the true positive rate at a specific false positive rate (TPR@FPR) metric and shows that detectors perform poorly in certain settings, achieving TPR@0.01 as low as 0%. These findings suggest that both trained and zero-shot detectors struggle to maintain high sensitivity while achieving a reasonable true positive rate. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how well machines can tell if text was written by another machine or a person. They test different tools that are supposed to detect this type of fake text. The researchers try to trick these tools with special prompts and show that it’s easy to make them miss the fake text. This is important because people need to be able to trust what they read online. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Prompting » Zero shot
