| Challenge: | GLTR is a tool to detect generated text that can be used by non-experts. |
| Approach: | They propose a tool to detect generated text using a set of statistical methods that can be used by non-experts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves detection rate of fake text from 54% to 72% without training. |
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| Challenge: | Current text generative models excel in producing text that matches the style of human language reasonably well. |
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in neural language modelling make it possible to rapidly generate vast amounts of human-sounding text. |
| Approach: | They compare decoding methods with popular sampling-based decoding strategies . they show that multi-sentence excerpts can fool expert human raters over 30% of the time . |
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| Challenge: | This tutorial focuses on machine-generated text and deepfakes. |
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| Outcome: | This tutorial focuses on machine-generated text and deepfakes. |
Detecting Bot-Generated Text by Characterizing Linguistic Accommodation in Human-Bot Interactions (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | MGTD methods are needed in many areas, such as prevention of disinformation spreading, plagiarism, impersonation and identity theft. |
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Exploring the Limitations of Detecting Machine-Generated Text (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in the quality of the generation of text by large language models have spurred research into identifying machine-generated text. |
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RoFT: A Tool for Evaluating Human Detection of Machine-Generated Text (2020.emnlp-demos)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on how humans perceive machine-generated text are limited due to the prohibitive cost of running human evaluation studies. |
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Adversarial Text Generation via Sequence Contrast Discrimination (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to generate human-like texts are auto-regressive, but they suffer from exposure bias due to the dependence on the previous sampled output during the inferring phase. |
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Humanizing Machine-Generated Content: Evading AI-Text Detection through Adversarial Attack (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Despite the development of large language models, there are still significant challenges in detecting whether text is generated by a machine. |
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People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Qualitative analysis of experts’ free-form explanations shows that while they rely heavily on specific lexical clues (‘AI vocabulary’), they also pick up on more complex phenomena within the text (e.g., formality, originality, clarity). |
| Approach: | They hire annotators to read 300 non-fiction English articles, label them as either human-written or AI-generated, and provide paragraph-length explanations for their decisions. |
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