WETBench: A Benchmark for Detecting Task-Specific Machine-Generated Text on Wikipedia 文章

ArXiv CS.CL2026-06-04NEWSen作者: Gerrit Quaremba, Elizabeth Black, Denny Vrande\v{c}i\'c, Elena Simperl

摘要

arXiv:2507.03373v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Given Wikipedia's role as a trusted source of high-quality, reliable content, concerns are growing about the proliferation of low-quality machine-generated text (MGT) produced by large language models (LLMs) on its platform. Reliable detection of MGT is therefore essential. However, existing work primarily evaluates MGT detectors on generic generation tasks rather than on tasks more commonly performed by Wikipedia editors. This misalignment can lead to poor generalisability when applied in real-world Wikipedia contexts. We introduce WETBench, a multilingual, multi-generator, and task-specific benchmark for MGT detection. We define three editing tasks, empirically grounded in Wikipedia editors' perceived use cases for LLM-assisted editing: Paragraph Writing, Summarisation, and Text Style Transfer, which we implement using two new datasets across three languages.