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Re:Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Le... by cygn on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:01PM (#48941865)
I built a browser extension that does this, well for posts on twitter, hackernews, reddit etc. If you want it for all text, it would also be feasible. I use a quantized mini-LM model that runs very fast and classifies eg your whole twitter feed in a couple of seconds.

Check it out: https://slopsieve.com/extension

Accuracy is also much higher than this approach here. 0.9944 AUC, 0.966 [email protected], 0.971 [email protected]

Re:Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Le... by lcnhk42 on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:30AM (#48948579)
Hey this is really cool. Do you mind sharing a little bit about your approach? Is it similar SVM like algorithm or something else entirely?
Re:Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Le... by joouha on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:13AM (#48976190)
Not GP, but I too was interested in this slopdetect-minilm-v3 model.

The model appears to be similar to MiniLM-L6 (384 dimension, 6 transformer layers) but uses RoBERTa/GPT-2 style embedding/tokenization (50265 vocab size), used for binary classification, and quantized to INT8.

My guess is that is was distilled from roberta-base, then fine-tuned on freely available pile like artem9k/ai-text-detection-pile or similar.

It's a nice model - I've just used it to create a browser extension which highlights text based on how likely it is to be LLM genereated.

Edit - a quick google search reveals ibm-granite/granite-embedding-30m-english with the same architecture: slap a binary classification head on, fine tune, job done.

Re:Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Le... by joouha on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:25AM (#48980207)
Just noticed in the model's metadata:

> MiniLMv2 L6-H384 (30M params) progressively distilled L24→L12→L6 from RoBERTa-large-v8 teacher (neobert-v2 recipe, min_words=0). Byte-level BPE tokenizer. INT8 quantized.