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Approach: They propose a black-box method with better generalizability for detecting LLM-generated text by mining the intrinsic features of the text to be detected.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves 7.36% and 2.84% improvement in detection performance compared to baselines in detecting texts from different domains generated by GPT-4 and Claude3 respectively.

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