Inside the Box: A Streamlined Model for AI-Generated News Article Detection

Nsrin Ashraf, Mariam Labib, Hamada Nayel


Abstract
The rapid proliferation of AI-generated text has raised concerns. With the increasing prevalence of AI-generated content, concerns have grown regarding authenticity, authorship, and the spread of misinformation. Detecting such content accurately and efficiently has become a pressing challenge. In this study, we propose a simple yet effective system for classifying AI-generated versus human-written text. Rather than relying on complex or resource-intensive deep learning architectures, our approach leverages classical machine learning algorithms combined with the TF-IDF text representation technique. Evaluated on the M-DAIGT shared task dataset, our Support Vector Machine (SVM) based system achieved strong results, ranking second on the official leaderboard and demonstrating competitive performance across all evaluation metrics. These findings highlight the potential of traditional lightweight models to address modern challenges in text authenticity detection, particularly in low-resource or real-time applications where interpretability and efficiency are essential.
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2025.ranlp-mdaigt.5
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Proceedings of the Shared Task on Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text
Month:
September
Year:
2025
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Varna, Bulgaria
Editors:
Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaoui, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El Amrani, Salmane Chafik, Hicham Hammouchi
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RANLP | WS
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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26–30
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https://aclanthology.org/2025.ranlp-mdaigt.5/
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Nsrin Ashraf, Mariam Labib, and Hamada Nayel. 2025. Inside the Box: A Streamlined Model for AI-Generated News Article Detection. In Proceedings of the Shared Task on Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text, pages 26–30, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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