Building an AI-Generated Text Detector: A Full-Stack NLP Project Guide
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The line between human and machine writing is blurring fast. This guide walks through building a complete AI-text detection system from scratch - from classical ML baselines to transformer fine-tuning, wrapped in a production API and interactive. This isn't a toy notebook. By the end, you'll have a modular codebase with an ensemble model, REST API, Gradio UI, Docker deployment, CI/CD, and a test suite. Let's break down each commit. Commit 1: The Foundation - Clean Init 2a66fcb Clean init (no large data/models/outputs) Every good project starts with structure.