MBZUAI researchers introduced Droid, a resource suite and detector family, at EMNLP 2025 designed to distinguish between AI-generated and human-written code. The project addresses the challenge of identifying AI-generated code in software development, considering the prevalence of AI-suggested code and the risks of obfuscated backdoors and feedback loops. DroidCollection includes over one million code samples across seven programming languages, three coding domains, and outputs from 43 different code models, including human-AI co-authored code and adversarially humanized machine code. Why it matters: This research is crucial for maintaining software security and integrity in the age of AI-assisted coding, providing a robust tool for detecting AI-generated code across diverse languages and domains.
Researchers at MBZUAI have developed LLM-DetectAIve, a tool to classify the degree of machine involvement in text generation. The system categorizes text into four types: human-written, machine-generated, machine-written and machine-humanized, and human-written and machine-polished. A demo website allows users to test the tool's ability to detect machine involvement. Why it matters: This research addresses the growing need to identify and classify AI-generated content in academic and professional settings, particularly in light of increasing LLM misuse.
MBZUAI researchers release LLM-DetectAIve, a tool for fine-grained detection of machine-generated text across four categories: human-written, machine-generated, machine-written then humanized, and human-written then machine-polished. The tool aims to address concerns about misuse of LLMs, especially in education and academia, by identifying attempts to obfuscate or polish content. LLM-DetectAIve is publicly accessible with code and a demonstration video provided.
MBZUAI researchers introduce FAID, a fine-grained AI-generated text detection framework capable of classifying text as human-written, LLM-generated, or collaboratively written. FAID utilizes multi-level contrastive learning and multi-task auxiliary classification to capture authorship and model-specific characteristics, and can identify the underlying LLM family. The framework outperforms existing baselines, especially in generalizing to unseen domains and new LLMs, and includes a multilingual, multi-domain dataset called FAIDSet.
This paper analyzes Arabic text generated by LLMs like ALLaM, Jais, Llama, and GPT-4 across academic and social media domains using stylometric analysis. The study found detectable linguistic patterns that differentiate human-written from machine-generated Arabic text. BERT-based detection models achieved up to 99.9% F1-score in formal contexts, though cross-domain generalization remains a challenge. Why it matters: The research lays groundwork for detecting AI-generated misinformation in Arabic, a crucial step for preserving information integrity in Arabic-language contexts.