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ai-detect: Fast methods to classify text as AI or human-generated

This is a research repo for fast AI detection methods as we experiment with different techniques. While there are a number of existing LLM detection systems, they all use a large model trained on either an LLM or its training data to calculate the probability of each word given the preceeding, then calculating a score where the more high-probability tokens are more likely to be AI-originated. Techniques and tools in this repo are looking for faster approximation to be embeddable and more scalable.

LZMA compression detector (lzma_detect.py and nlzmadetect)

This is the first attempt, using the LZMA compression ratios as a way to indirectly measure the perplexity of a text. Compression ratios have been used in the past to detect anomalies in network data for intrusion detection, so if perplexity is roughly a measure of anomalous tokens, it may be possible to use compression to detect low-perplexity text. LZMA creates a dictionary of seen tokens, and then uses though in place of future tokens. The dictionary size, token length, etc. are all dynamic (though influenced by the 'preset' of 0-9--with 0 being the fastest but worse compression than 9). The basic idea is to 'seed' an LZMA compression stream with a corpus of AI-generated text (ai-generated.txt) and then measure the compression ratio of just the seed data with that of the sample appended. Samples that follow more closely in word choice, structure, etc. will acheive a higher compression ratio due to the prevalence of similar tokens in the dictionary, novel words, structures, etc. will appear anomalous to the seeded dictionary, resulting in a worse compression ratio.