SweEval: Do LLMs Really Swear? A Safety Benchmark for Testing Limits for
  Enterprise Use
Authors: name: Hitesh Laxmichand Patel; name: Amit Agarwal; name: Arion Das; name: Bhargava Kumar; name: Srikant Panda; name: Priyaranjan Pattnayak; name: Taki Hasan Rafi; name: Tejaswini Kumar; name: Dong-Kyu Chae
Published: 2025-05-22 22:56:58

Abstract: Enterprise customers are increasingly adopting Large Language Models (LLMs)
for critical communication tasks, such as drafting emails, crafting sales
pitches, and composing casual messages. Deploying such models across different
regions requires them to understand diverse cultural and linguistic contexts
and generate safe and respectful responses. For enterprise applications, it is
crucial to mitigate reputational risks, maintain trust, and ensure compliance
by effectively identifying and handling unsafe or offensive language. To
address this, we introduce SweEval, a benchmark simulating real-world scenarios
with variations in tone (positive or negative) and context (formal or
informal). The prompts explicitly instruct the model to include specific swear
words while completing the task. This benchmark evaluates whether LLMs comply
with or resist such inappropriate instructions and assesses their alignment
with ethical frameworks, cultural nuances, and language comprehension
capabilities. In order to advance research in building ethically aligned AI
systems for enterprise use and beyond, we release the dataset and code:
https://github.com/amitbcp/multilingual_profanity.