CHEAT: A Large-scale Dataset for Detecting ChatGPT-writtEn AbsTracts
This addresses the need for tools to combat academic dishonesty caused by AI-generated content, though it is incremental as it builds on existing detection methods.
The authors tackled the problem of detecting ChatGPT-generated academic abstracts by creating a large-scale dataset called CHEAT, containing 35,304 synthetic abstracts, and found that while these abstracts are detectable, detection difficulty increases with human involvement.
The powerful ability of ChatGPT has caused widespread concern in the academic community. Malicious users could synthesize dummy academic content through ChatGPT, which is extremely harmful to academic rigor and originality. The need to develop ChatGPT-written content detection algorithms call for large-scale datasets. In this paper, we initially investigate the possible negative impact of ChatGPT on academia,and present a large-scale CHatGPT-writtEn AbsTract dataset (CHEAT) to support the development of detection algorithms. In particular, the ChatGPT-written abstract dataset contains 35,304 synthetic abstracts, with Generation, Polish, and Mix as prominent representatives. Based on these data, we perform a thorough analysis of the existing text synthesis detection algorithms. We show that ChatGPT-written abstracts are detectable, while the detection difficulty increases with human involvement.Our dataset is available in https://github.com/botianzhe/CHEAT.