arXiv AI

Attacks on Machine-Text Detectors Retain Stylistic Fingerprints

arXiv:2505. 14608v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite considerable progress in the development of machine-text detectors, the ease with which machine-text can be manipulated to evade detection has led to suggestions that the problem is inherently intractable.

arXiv AI
Jun 16

StyleShield: Exposing the Fragility of AIGC Detectors through Continuous Controllable Style Transfer

arXiv:2605. 00924v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI-generated content (AIGC) detectors are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings such as academic integrity screening, yet their reliability rests on a fundamental paradox: as language models are trained on human-written corpora, the statistical boundary between AI and human writing will inevitably dissolve as models improve.

By Guantian Zheng
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

I Am No One: Style-Aware Paraphrasing for Text Anonymization

The paper introduces a style-aware paraphrasing method for text anonymization that leverages pretrained large language models to build compact stylistic profiles from minimal samples and rewrite text to suppress identifiable style markers while preserving meaning. It demonstrates that this approach reduces authorship attribution F1 scores by 60‑70% on blog and review datasets, outperforming both differential privacy‑based and non‑DP baselines, and maintains content quality and readability.

By Ahmed Sohair Khan, Estrid He, Monica Wachowicz, Elham Naghizade
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Tracing Target Answers in Poisoned Retrieval Corpora via Token Influence Attribution

The paper introduces TRACE, a lightweight framework for detecting corpus poisoning in Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems. TRACE works by tracing answer-related tokens through token influence attribution, first identifying recurrent high-influence keywords across retrieved documents and then verifying their impact on model predictions. Experiments on three QA benchmarks and six large language models show that TRACE achieves strong detection performance while also revealing attacker-specified target answers.

By Yan-Lun Chen, Pin-Yu Chen, Chia-Mu Yu, Ying-Dar Lin, Yu-Sung Wu, Wei-Bin Lee