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SemEval-2024 Task 8: Multidomain, Multimodel and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection
Yuxia Wang
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Jonibek Mansurov
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Petar Ivanov
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Jinyan Su
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Artem Shelmanov
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Akim Tsvigun
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Osama Mohammed Afzal
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Tarek Mahmoud
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Giovanni Puccetti
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Thomas Arnold
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2024 Task 8: Multigenerator, Multidomain, and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection. The task featured three subtasks. Subtask A is a binary classification task determining whether a text is written by a human or generated by a machine. This subtask has two tracks: a monolingual track focused solely on English texts and a multilingual track. Subtask B is to detect the exact source of a text, discerning whether it is written by a human or generated by a specific LLM. Subtask C aims to identify the changing point within a text, at which the authorship transitions from human to machine. The task attracted a large number of participants: subtask A monolingual (126), subtask A multilingual (59), subtask B (70), and subtask C (30). In this paper, we present the task, analyze the results, and discuss the system submissions and the methods they used. For all subtasks, the best systems used LLMs.
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M4: Multi-generator, Multi-domain, and Multi-lingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection
Yuxia Wang
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Jonibek Mansurov
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Petar Ivanov
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Jinyan Su
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Artem Shelmanov
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Akim Tsvigun
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Chenxi Whitehouse
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Osama Mohammed Afzal
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Tarek Mahmoud
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Toru Sasaki
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Thomas Arnold
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Alham Fikri Aji
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Nizar Habash
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Iryna Gurevych
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Preslav Nakov
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capability to generate fluent responses to a wide variety of user queries. However, this has also raised concerns about the potential misuse of such texts in journalism, education, and academia. In this study, we strive to create automated systems that can detect machine-generated texts and pinpoint potential misuse. We first introduce a large-scale benchmark M4, which is a multi-generator, multi-domain, and multi-lingual corpus for machine-generated text detection. Through an extensive empirical study of this dataset, we show that it is challenging for detectors to generalize well on instances from unseen domains or LLMs. In such cases, detectors tend to misclassify machine-generated text as human-written. These results show that the problem is far from solved and that there is a lot of room for improvement. We believe that our dataset will enable future research towards more robust approaches to this pressing societal problem. The dataset is available at https://github.com/mbzuai-nlp/M4
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M4GT-Bench: Evaluation Benchmark for Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection
Yuxia Wang
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Jonibek Mansurov
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Petar Ivanov
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Jinyan Su
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Artem Shelmanov
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Akim Tsvigun
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Osama Mohammed Afzal
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Tarek Mahmoud
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Giovanni Puccetti
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Thomas Arnold
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Alham Aji
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Nizar Habash
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Iryna Gurevych
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Preslav Nakov
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has brought an unprecedented surge in machine-generated text (MGT) across diverse channels. This raises legitimate concerns about its potential misuse and societal implications. The need to identify and differentiate such content from genuine human-generated text is critical in combating disinformation, preserving the integrity of education and scientific fields, and maintaining trust in communication. In this work, we address this problem by introducing a new benchmark based on a multilingual, multi-domain and multi-generator corpus of MGTs — M4GT-Bench. The benchmark is compiled of three tasks: (1) mono-lingual and multi-lingual binary MGT detection; (2) multi-way detection where one need to identify, which particular model generated the text; and (3) mixed human-machine text detection, where a word boundary delimiting MGT from human-written content should be determined. On the developed benchmark, we have tested several MGT detection baselines and also conducted an evaluation of human performance. We see that obtaining good performance in MGT detection usually requires an access to the training data from the same domain and generators. The benchmark is available at https://github.com/mbzuai-nlp/M4GT-Bench.