ToxicChat: Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Toxicity Detection in Real-World User-AI Conversation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17389v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:35:41 GMT
• Title: ToxicChat: Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Toxicity Detection in Real-World User-AI Conversation
• Authors: Zi Lin, Zihan Wang, Yongqi Tong, Yangkun Wang, Yuxin Guo, Yujia Wang, Jingbo Shang
• Abstract summary: We introduce ToxicChat, a novel benchmark based on real user queries from an open-source chatbots. Our systematic evaluation of models trained on existing toxicity datasets has shown their shortcomings when applied to this unique domain of ToxicChat. In the future, ToxicChat can be a valuable resource to drive further advancements toward building a safe and healthy environment for user-AI interactions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite remarkable advances that large language models have achieved in chatbots, maintaining a non-toxic user-AI interactive environment has become increasingly critical nowadays. However, previous efforts in toxicity detection have been mostly based on benchmarks derived from social media content, leaving the unique challenges inherent to real-world user-AI interactions insufficiently explored. In this work, we introduce ToxicChat, a novel benchmark based on real user queries from an open-source chatbot. This benchmark contains the rich, nuanced phenomena that can be tricky for current toxicity detection models to identify, revealing a significant domain difference compared to social media content. Our systematic evaluation of models trained on existing toxicity datasets has shown their shortcomings when applied to this unique domain of ToxicChat. Our work illuminates the potentially overlooked challenges of toxicity detection in real-world user-AI conversations. In the future, ToxicChat can be a valuable resource to drive further advancements toward building a safe and healthy environment for user-AI interactions.

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