| ---
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| language: en
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| license: other
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| task_categories:
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| - text-classification
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| tags:
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| - ai-detection
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| - reddit
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| - human-written
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| - nlp
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| size_categories:
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| - 10K<n<100K
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| configs:
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| - config_name: default
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| data_files:
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| - split: pre_2022
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| path: data/pre_2022-*
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| - split: post_2022
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| path: data/post_2022-*
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| dataset_info:
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| features:
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| - name: text
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| dtype: large_string
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| - name: subreddit
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| dtype: large_string
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| - name: domain
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| dtype: large_string
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| - name: post_type
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| dtype: large_string
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| - name: year
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| dtype: int64
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| - name: word_count
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| dtype: int64
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| - name: length_bin
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| dtype: large_string
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| - name: score
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| dtype: int64
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| - name: created_utc
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| dtype: int64
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| - name: id
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| dtype: large_string
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| splits:
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| - name: pre_2022
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| num_bytes: 14860525
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| num_examples: 19960
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| - name: post_2022
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| num_bytes: 13977964
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| num_examples: 19985
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| download_size: 16462550
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| dataset_size: 28838489
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| ---
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|
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| # Reddit AI-Detection Dataset
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| Human-written Reddit posts and comments collected for AI-generated text
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| detection research (CSCI 544 – *Who Wrote This?*).
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| All records in the **pre-2022** split pre-date widespread LLM deployment
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| and can be treated as ground-truth human-authored text for detector
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| calibration.
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| ## Splits
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| | File | Records | Period |
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| |------|--------:|--------|
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| | `data/reddit_pre_2022.zip` | 2,257 | 2005 – 2021 |
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| | `data/reddit_post_2022.zip` | 79 | 2022 – 2026 |
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| | `data/reddit_combined.zip` | 2,336 | 2005 – 2026 |
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| ## Schema
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| | Column | Type | Description |
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| |--------|------|-------------|
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| | `text` | str | Post / comment body |
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| | `subreddit` | str | Source subreddit |
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| | `domain` | str | technology · news · science · finance · entertainment |
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| | `post_type` | str | `submission` or `comment` |
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| | `year` | int | UTC year of posting |
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| | `word_count` | int | Approximate word count |
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| | `length_bin` | str | short / medium / long / very_long |
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| | `score` | int | Reddit score at collection time |
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| | `created_utc` | int | Unix timestamp |
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| | `id` | str | Reddit post ID |
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| ## Citation
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| Data originally collected by Pushshift / u/raiderbdev, packaged by u/Watchful1.
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