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ToxicChat

Introduced by Zi Lin et al. in ToxicChat: Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Toxicity Detection in Real-World User-AI Conversation26 Oct 2023 archive 2025-07-28

ToxicChat is a novel benchmark dataset constructed based on real user queries from an open-source chatbot. Unlike previous toxicity detection benchmarks that primarily rely on social media content, ToxicChat captures the rich and nuanced phenomena inherent in real-world user-AI interactions. This unique dataset reveals significant domain differences compared to social media contents, making it a valuable resource for exploring the challenges of toxicity detection in user-AI conversations¹.

Here are some key details about the ToxicChat dataset:

  • Construction: ToxicChat was created using real user queries collected from an open-source chatbot.
  • Challenges: It contains phenomena that can be tricky for current toxicity detection models to identify.
  • Domain Difference: ToxicChat exhibits a significant domain difference when compared to social media content.
  • Purpose: ToxicChat serves as a benchmark to drive advancements in building a safe and healthy environment for user-AI interactions.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 3/17/2024 (1) ToxicChat: Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Toxicity Detection in Real .... https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.311/. (2) arXiv:2310.17389v1 [cs.CL] 26 Oct 2023. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.17389. (3) README.md · lmsys/toxic-chat at main - Hugging Face. https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmsys/toxic-chat/blob/main/README.md. (4) The Toxicity Dataset - GitHub. https://github.com/surge-ai/toxicity. (5) undefined. https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.311. (6) undefined. https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.311.pdf.

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