DUTh at SemEval 2024 Task 8: Comparing classic Machine Learning Algorithms and LLM based methods for Multigenerator, Multidomain and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection

AbstractText-generative models evolve rapidly nowadays. Although, they are very useful tools for a lot of people, they have also raised concerns for different reasons. This paper presents our work for SemEval2024 Task-8 on 2 out of the 3 subtasks. This shared task aims at finding automatic models for making AI vs. human written text classification easier. Our team, after trying different preprocessing, several Machine Learning algorithms, and some LLMs, ended up with mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa, and BERT for the tasks we submitted. We present both positive and negative methods, so that future researchers are informed about what works and what doesn’t.