Spotting LLMs With Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text

The article discusses a novel method for detecting text generated by large language models (LLMs), called Binoculars. The method contrasts two closely related language models and uses simple calculations with a pair of pre-trained LLMs to distinguish between human and machine-generated text. The Binoculars method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy without requiring any training data and can detect machine text from various modern LLMs without any model-specific modifications.

The article further highlights the effectiveness of Binoculars in different scenarios and text sources. It successfully detects over 90% of generated samples from ChatGPT and other LLMs at a false positive rate of 0.01%, even without being trained on any ChatGPT data. This suggests that Binoculars could be a valuable tool in identifying and distinguishing machine-generated text across a wide range of document types.

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A score based on contrasting two closely related language models can accurately separate human-generated and machine-generated text.
A novel LLM detector called Binoculars is proposed, which only requires simple calculations using a pair of pre-trained LLMs.
Binoculars achieves state-of-the-art accuracy without any training data and can spot machine text from a range of modern LLMs without any model-specific modifications.
Binoculars detects over 90% of generated samples from ChatGPT (and other LLMs) at a false positive rate of 0.01%, despite not being trained on any ChatGPT data.

Spotting LLMs With Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text

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