@inproceedings{masrour-etal-2025-damage,
    title = "{DAMAGE}: Detecting Adversarially Modified {AI} Generated Text",
    author = "Masrour, Elyas  and
      Emi, Bradley N.  and
      Spero, Max",
    editor = "Alam, Firoj  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Habash, Nizar  and
      Gurevych, Iryna  and
      Chowdhury, Shammur  and
      Shelmanov, Artem  and
      Wang, Yuxia  and
      Artemova, Ekaterina  and
      Kutlu, Mucahid  and
      Mikros, George",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1stWorkshop on GenAI Content Detection (GenAIDetect)",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2025.genaidetect-1.9/",
    pages = "120--133",
    abstract = "AI humanizers are a new class of online software tools meant to paraphrase and rewrite AI-generated text in a way that allows them to evade AI detection software. We study 19 AI humanizer and paraphrasing tools and qualitatively assess their effects and faithfulness in preserving the meaning of the original text. We show that many existing AI detectors fail to detect humanized text. Finally, we demonstrate a robust model that can detect humanized AI text while maintaining a low false positive rate using a data-centric augmentation approach. We attack our own detector, training our own fine-tuned model optimized against our detector`s predictions, and show that our detector`s cross-humanizer generalization is sufficient to remain robust to this attack."
}