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Decoupling Content and Expression: Two-Dimensional Detection of AI-Generated Text

Computation and Language 2025-03-04 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society

Abstract

The wide usage of LLMs raises critical requirements on detecting AI participation in texts. Existing studies investigate these detections in scattered contexts, leaving a systematic and unified approach unexplored. In this paper, we present HART, a hierarchical framework of AI risk levels, each corresponding to a detection task. To address these tasks, we propose a novel 2D Detection Method, decoupling a text into content and language expression. Our findings show that content is resistant to surface-level changes, which can serve as a key feature for detection. Experiments demonstrate that 2D method significantly outperforms existing detectors, achieving an AUROC improvement from 0.705 to 0.849 for level-2 detection and from 0.807 to 0.886 for RAID. We release our data and code at https://github.com/baoguangsheng/truth-mirror.

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@article{arxiv.2503.00258,
  title  = {Decoupling Content and Expression: Two-Dimensional Detection of AI-Generated Text},
  author = {Guangsheng Bao and Lihua Rong and Yanbin Zhao and Qiji Zhou and Yue Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.00258},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 8 tables, 8 figures

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