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Is ChatGPT Involved in Texts? Measure the Polish Ratio to Detect ChatGPT-Generated Text

Lingyi Yang, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), China, Feng Jiang, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), and School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, jeffreyjiang@cuhk.edu.cn , Haizhou Li, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), China
 
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Lingyi Yang, Feng Jiang and Haizhou Li (2024), "Is ChatGPT Involved in Texts? Measure the Polish Ratio to Detect ChatGPT-Generated Text", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 13: No. 2, e103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/116.00000250

Publication Date: 12 Feb 2024
© 2024 L. Yang, F. Jiang and H. Li
 
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ChatGPT DetectionPolish RatioLarge-Scale Language Models
 

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Abstract

The remarkable capabilities of large-scale language models, such as ChatGPT, in text generation have impressed readers and spurred researchers to devise detectors to mitigate potential risks, including misinformation, phishing, and academic dishonesty. Despite this, most previous studies have been predominantly geared towards creating detectors that differentiate between purely ChatGPT-generated texts and human-authored texts. This approach, however, fails to work on discerning texts generated through human-machine collaboration, such as ChatGPT-polished texts. Addressing this gap, we introduce a novel dataset termed HPPT (ChatGPT-polished academic abstracts), facilitating the construction of more robust detectors. It diverges from extant corpora by comprising pairs of human-written and ChatGPT-polished abstracts instead of purely ChatGPT-generated texts. Additionally, we propose the “Polish Ratio” method, an innovative measure of the degree of modification made by ChatGPT compared to the original human-written text. It provides a mechanism to measure the degree of ChatGPT influence in the resulting text. Our experimental results show our proposed model has better robustness on the HPPT dataset and two existing datasets (HC3 and CDB). Furthermore, the “Polish Ratio” we proposed offers a more comprehensive explanation by quantifying the degree of ChatGPT involvement.

DOI:10.1561/116.00000250

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