CLAISep 14, 2023

Detecting ChatGPT: A Survey of the State of Detecting ChatGPT-Generated Text

arXiv:2309.07689v1137 citationsh-index: 5
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It addresses the crucial issue of text integrity in domains like law, education, and science, but is incremental as a survey.

This survey tackles the problem of distinguishing between human- and ChatGPT-generated text, summarizing current datasets, methods, and insights from qualitative analyses.

While recent advancements in the capabilities and widespread accessibility of generative language models, such as ChatGPT (OpenAI, 2022), have brought about various benefits by generating fluent human-like text, the task of distinguishing between human- and large language model (LLM) generated text has emerged as a crucial problem. These models can potentially deceive by generating artificial text that appears to be human-generated. This issue is particularly significant in domains such as law, education, and science, where ensuring the integrity of text is of the utmost importance. This survey provides an overview of the current approaches employed to differentiate between texts generated by humans and ChatGPT. We present an account of the different datasets constructed for detecting ChatGPT-generated text, the various methods utilized, what qualitative analyses into the characteristics of human versus ChatGPT-generated text have been performed, and finally, summarize our findings into general insights

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