TURINGBENCH: A Benchmark Environment for Turing Test in the Age of Neural Text Generation

Adaku Uchendu, Zeyu Ma, Thai Le, Rui Zhang, Dongwon Lee

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Abstract

Recent progress in generative language models has enabled machines to generate astonishingly realistic texts. While there are many legitimate applications of such models, there is also a rising need to distinguish machine-generated texts from human-written ones (e.g., fake news detection). However, to our best knowledge, there is currently no benchmark environment with datasets and tasks to systematically study the so-called "Turing Test"problem for neural text generation methods. In this work, we present the TURINGBENCH benchmark environment, which is comprised of (1) a dataset with 200K human- or machine-generated samples across 20 labels {Human, GPT-1, GPT-2_small, GPT-2_medium, GPT-2_large, GPT-2_xl, GPT-2_PyTorch, GPT-3, GROVER_base, GROVER_large, GROVER_mega, CTRL, XLM, XLNET_base, XLNET_large, FAIR_wmt19, FAIR_wmt20, TRANSFORMER_XL, PPLM_distil, PPLM_gpt2}, (2) two benchmark tasks-i.e., Turing Test (TT) and Authorship Attribution (AA), and (3) a website with leaderboards. Our preliminary experimental results using TURINGBENCH show that FAIR_wmt20 and GPT-3 are the current winners, among all language models tested, in generating the most human-like indistinguishable texts with the lowest F1 score by five state-of-the-art TT detection models. The TURINGBENCH is available at: https://turingbench.ist.psu.edu/

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL
Subtitle of host publicationEMNLP 2021
EditorsMarie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-Tau Yih
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages2001-2016
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781955917100
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2021 - Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Duration: Nov 7 2021Nov 11 2021

Publication series

NameFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2021

Conference

Conference2021 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2021
Country/TerritoryDominican Republic
CityPunta Cana
Period11/7/2111/11/21

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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