Can I read Ghostbuster: Detecting Text Ghostwritten by Large Language Models on EtoBox?

Ghostbuster: Detecting Text Ghostwritten by Large Language Models by Verma, Vivek; Fleisig, Eve; Tomlin, Nicholas; Klein, Dan is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ghostbuster: Detecting Text Ghostwritten by Large Language Models about?

We introduce Ghostbuster, a state-of-the-art system for detecting AI-generated text. Our method works by passing documents through a series of weaker language models, running a structured search over possible combinations of their features, and then training a classifier on the selected features to predict whether documents are AI-generated. Crucially, Ghostbuster does not require access to token probabilities from the target model, making it useful for detecting text generated by black-box models or unknown model versions. In conjunction with our model, we release three new datasets of human- and AI-generated text as detection benchmarks in the domains of student essays, creative writing, and news articles. We compare Ghostbuster to a variety of existing detectors, including DetectGPT and GPTZero, as well as a new RoBERTa baseline. Ghostbuster achieves 99.0 F1 when evaluated across domains, which is 5.9 F1 higher than the best preexisting model. It also outperforms all previous approaches in generalization across writing domains (+7.5 F1), prompting strategies (+2.1 F1), and language models (+4.4 F1). We also analyze the robustness of our system to a variety of perturbations and p

Author

Verma, Vivek; Fleisig, Eve; Tomlin, Nicholas; Klein, Dan

Published

2023

Language

EN