On the Zero-Shot Generalization of Machine-Generated Text Detectors (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | rampant proliferation of large language models generates text indistinguishable from human-written language. |
| Approach: | They train neural detectors on outputs of a new generator and test their performance on held-out generators. |
| Outcome: | The proposed detectors can be built on training data from medium-sized models. |
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