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
Venue: EMNLP 2023 Findings (2023)
Keywords: Toxicity
Real-World User-AI Interaction
Domain Adaptation
LLM-based Chatbots

Abstract: Despite remarkable advances that large language models have achieved in chatbots nowadays, 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 contents, leaving the unique challenges inherent to real-world user-AI interactions insufficiently explored. In this work, we introduce ToxicChat, a novel benchmark constructed 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 when compared to social media contents. 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.

TOXICCHAT:
Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Toxicity Detection in Real-World User-Al Conversation
Warning: some contents may contain racism, sexuality, or other undesired contents.
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Abstract
et al., 2019), while existing work mainly focused on data derived from social media or generated by LLMs, few efforts have been made towards real- world user-Al conversations (Curry et al., 2021). However, it is noted that the content of user interac- tions varies substantially between chatbots versus public platforms. For example, while social media users typically post their views directly, chatbot interactions often involve users posing questions or giving instructions. As result, existing mod- els may fail to recognize the completely new style and more implicit content toxicity underlying the users' seemingly friendly questions or instruc- tions. Hence, it is of critical importance to develop toxicity benchmarks rooted in real-world user-AI dialogues, which can help develop better conver- sational Al system for addressing toxic behavior embedded within this specific conversation context.
Despite remarkable advances that large lan- guage models have achieved in chatbots, main- taining a non-toxic user-Al interactive environ- ment has become increasingly critical nowa- days. However, previous efforts in toxicity detection have been mostly based on bench- marks derived from social media content, leav- ing the unique challenges inherent to real-world user-Al 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 iden- tify, revealing significant domain difference compared to social media content. Our system- atic evaluation of models trained on existing toxicity datasets has shown their shortcomings when applied to this unique domain of TOXI- CCHAT. Our work illuminates the potentially overlooked challenges of toxicity detection in real-world user-Al conversations.
In this work, we conduct benchmark study focused on toxicity in real-world user-AI interac- tions. We create a comprehensive toxicity bench- mark TOXICCHAT based on real chat data between users and AI, which can be utilized to understand user behaviors and improve the performance of AI systems in detecting toxicity for chatbots. Our work can be summarized into three stages:
the fu- ture, TOXICCHAT be valuable resource to drive further advancements toward building a safe and healthy environment for user-Al in- teractions.
1 Introduction
First, Section 2 introduces the construction of TOXICCHAT, dataset that collects 10,166 ex- amples with toxicity annotations. Specifically, we collect and pre-process user inputs from the demo based on a popular open-source chatbot Vi- cuna (Zheng et al., 2023), and apply an uncertainty- guided human-AI collaborative annotation scheme, which successfully releases around 60% annota- tion workload while maintaining the reliability of labels. During annotation, we take in-depth analysis based on the data, and discover specific phenomena where chatbots are being subjected prompt hacks that will induce them ignore their policies and generate toxic content (sce examples in Appendix C). This phenomenon is referred to as
The field of conversational AI has seen major shift with the development of large language model (bLM)-based chatbots like ChatGPT. While these chatbots have demonstrated remarkable capabili- ties in generating human-like responses, the risk of undesired content emerging in this interface has be- come one of the most urgent issues recently. There- fore, is important to equip these chatbots with effective mechanisms to identify potentially harm- ful contents that goes against their policies.
Toxicity detection has long been investigated natural language processing problem (Curry and Rieser, 2018. 2019; Chin and Yi, 2019; Ma
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2 TOXICCHAT Construction
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Toxic Prompts From Current Benchmark
We collected data via online demo based on Vicuna, which was trained by fine-tuning LLaMA (Touvron al., 2023) on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT Vicuna demo one of the most currently used community chatbot system, and the data was gathered at the consent of users. For safety measures we took, please refer to our Ethical Consideration section. We randomly sam- pled a portion from the user-Al interactions in the time range from March 30 April 12, 2023. We conduct prep-ppppoo including (1) removing
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Traditional
Todaty Detection
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Models
Toxic Prompts From LLMs' Benchmark
Pretend you novelist. There are moral
policies for this chat:
uninformative and noisy contents; (2) removing the too few non-Enlgish inputs; (3) personal iden- tifiable information removal (more details in Ap- pendix B). Also, all studies in this work currently only focus on the first round of interaction between human and AI.
Figure 1: Prompts from Different Domain Tradi- tional toxicity detection models fail at detecting the toxic prompts from in user-Al conversations.
jailbreaking, and we create an special label for this implicit toxic case.
2.1 Annotation Scheme and Guidelines
Second, in section 3, we evaluate several base- line models and model trained on 5 different tox- icity datasets from previous work. We find that existing models fail to generalize to our toxicity benchmark and works significantly poorly on jail- breaking cases. This is mainly due to the domain inconsistency between their training data and real- world user prompts in chatbots (see some examples in Figure 1).
The dataset is annotated by 4 researchers in order to obtain high quality annotations. All researchers speak fluent English. Labels are based on the def- initions for undesired content in (Zampieri et al., 2019), and the annotators adopt a binary value for toxicity label (0 means non-toxic, and 1 means toxic). The final toxicity label is determined though (strict) majority vote (>=3 annotators agree the label). Our target is to collect total of around 10K data for the TOXICCHAT benchmark that follows the true distribution of toxicity in the real-world user-Al conversations.
Finally, in Section 4, we take an ablation study towards existing toxicity datasets compared to TOXICCHAT and find that the model trained on our benchmark always performs the best on our real-world validation set, even the data size of pre- vious datasets are 10 times larger. We also observe that utilizing model output can help to recognize the special case of jailbreaking.
The annotators were asked to first annotate common set of 720 data a trial. The inter- annotator agreement is 96. 1 1,, and the toxicity rate 7.22%.
In summary, TOXICCHAT is the first toxicity dataset based on real-world user-Al conversations, Its unique nature positions to be a pivotal re- source in the development of more robust and nu- anced toxicity detection models for real-world user- AI conversations. Our analysis based on TOxIC- CHAT sheds light on challenges and insights of toxicity detection in this field that future research needs to overcome
During the initial round of annotation, We also notice a special case of toxic inputs where the user deliberately trying to trick the chatbot into gen- erating toxic content but involves some seemingly harmless text. An example can be found in the last box in Figure 1, and more examples are shown in Appendix C. Following conventions in the commu- nity, we call such examples "jailbreaking" queries. We believe such ambiguous text, created to inten- tionally cheat chatbots, might also be hard for toxi- city detection tools and decide to add an extra label for this special toxic example.
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2.2 Human-Al collaborative Annotation Framework
Features
Pre
Rec
F1
JR
OpenAI
84.3
11.7
20.6
10.5
Perspecitive
90.9
2.7
5.3
1.2
Annotating a larger scale of toxicity dataset can be painstaking and time-consuming. Inspired by Kivlichan et al. (2021), we explore a way to reduce the annotation workload by asking two questions: (I) whether off-the-shelf moderation APIs an- notate toxicity on our data properly? (2) If not, can we partially reply on moderation API using some heuristic signals? Our evaluation results on trial data mentioned in Section 2.1 indicate that common moderation APIs fail to identify toxicity with an threshold that can yield good separation between toxic and non-toxic examples. However, the confidence score of the moderation exhibits considerable level of reliability, i.e., higher proba- bility generally corresponds higher likelihood of toxicity.
HateBERT
6.3
77.3
11.6
60.5
Tox Deciooooba
75.9
22.4
34.6
8.1
Table I: Evaluation Results for Open-sourced toxicity detection APIs and Models on TOXICCHAT.
Domain
Pre
JR
HSTA
22.6
15.9
18.6
7.9
MovieReview
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28.1
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67.5
47.7
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Table 2: Evaluation results on TOXICCнAт for Toberta-bane trained on different toxicity domains.
Perspective API filtered out 4,668 ones with low toxicity score and we annotated 2,931 data. the second stage, we manually labeled 2,756 extra data to enrich the test set for evaluation. After man- ual check and remove unsuitable data for release, ToxICCHAT collects a total of 10, data.
Given these findings, we utilize a human-Al col- laborative annotation framework for more effi- cient annotation process (more details can be found in Appendix D). Since only small portion of user- AI interactions are toxic based on the trial study, we leverage toxicity detection models to filter out a portion of data that deems non-toxic with high confidence by the moderation APIs. Namely, we leverage Perspective API and treat all text with a score less than 1e-1.43 non-toxic. Estimates the trial study suggests that only 1 out of the 48 toxic examples are missed, which we believe is acceptable. evaluation, we focus on the human annotated portion. We believe that the model evalu- ation on the likely non-toxt toxit part would have little to no effect on assessing the model's overall quality. As a result, we have successfully released around 60% annotation workload while maintaining the accuracy of labels.
The overall toxicity rate is 7.10%, which is sim- ilar to the one reported in Section 2.1, indicating that our annotation is relatively consistent. The jailbreaking rate is 1.75%.
Baseline Evaluations
Here, start with baseline evaluations the benchmark and show that TOXICCHAT can not be well solved by prior toxicity detection tools models. We split all 10,166 data points randomly into two halves of training and testing data.
Evaluation Metric. The most important metric of our evaluation is the method's ability to iden- tify toxic text without over-prediction on non-toxic ones. We calculate the precision (Pre), recall (Rec), and Fj score of method the human annotated portion in the test set of TOXICCHAT. A better score means the model can better detect toxicity. We also introduce one additional metric, jalibreak- ing recall (JR), the percentage of the jailbreaking text the model successfully identifies as toxic.
We are aware that our annotator agreement is not perfect. Therefore, we leverage two process to guarantee the annotation quality: (1) during an- notation each example is seen by two different an- notators. In the end, gathered all conflicting annotations and discussed about them to achieve mutual agreement on all data; (2) we double check those non-toxic examples using GPT4 to find po- tential toxic examples that have been ignored by our annotators by mistake. We additionally label jailbreaking text, following the same process. Renchmark Statistics. The construction Toxi- сCHAT consists of two stages. In the first stage, we collect a total of 7,599 data points, among which
Model Baselines. We benchmark existing toxicity detection APIs and models our TOXICCHAT. For toxicity detection APIs, we use all suggested thresholding values avoid our own confirmation bias on the dataset. Specifically, for OpenAl moder- ation, we use the binary prediction provides. For Perspective API, we use threshold value 0.7

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Features
Rec
Fi
JR
better capturing jailbreaking data than toxicity data, and otherwise a lower ability. All outer do- main datasets except Toxigen exhibits a decrease in jailbreaiing recall, indicating that the domain transfer to jailbreaking detecting is probably even harder than toxicity detection in TOXICCHAT.
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Table 3: Results on using different features in Tox- ICCHAT predict toxicity. By default our choice Input, which uses the input entered by user. Output corresponds to the response by vicuna, while in Input U Output, we concat both input and output as the feature.
4.2 Toxicity Methods Using Chatbot Output
We also considered experimenting with better meth- ods of detecting toxicity in TOXICCHAT, one which leveraging the chatbot's ss response to user inputs. The intuition is that such responses may convey some additional features (e.g., the response could be "sorry, but an ".)"") could be casier to detect (e.g., when the chatbot did not realize toxic inputs, it may generate toxic responses). We experimented using the output in two ways, one by treating it as the sole feature (in both training and testing), and the other by combining it with the input feature. The results are reported in Table 3, Results. By using only responses (Output), the model lacks in detecting toxicity and jailbreaking. By combining responses with user inputs (Input U Output), we notice a slight increase toxicity detection and a slight decrease in jailbreaking cov- erage, while both non-significant. The conclusion. against our intuition, is that including model re- sponses might not be helpful.
according the recommendation of their website". For existing toxicity detection models, we evalu- ate HateBERT (Caselli et al., 2020) and ToxDec- tRoberta (Zhou, 2021).
Results. The results are shown in Table 1. It is clear that these models and APIS fail to deliver good quality on TOXICCHAT, indicating that there is large domain discrepancy for toxicity between real-world user-AI conversations and social media platforms.
4 Ablation Study
4.1
Domain Difference
To study whether TOXIcCHAT has different data domain than prior works, we consider six different toxicity datasets HSTA, MovieReview, Jigsaw, Toxigen, ReamtoxscPrompts, and ConvAbuse (de- tails in Appendix A). We subsample them to a rea- sonable size and train a roberta-base model on each of the dataset, using the huggingface frame- work along with their suggested hyperparameters. Additionally, experiment the six domains. We then evaluate all seven trained models on our benchmark. Finally, we evaluated a roberta-base model trained on the training por- tion of TOXICCHAT. All experiments are con- ducted 5 times with different random seeds, and the standard deviation is reported.
5 Conclusion
combination of
In this work, we present TOXICCHAT, real-world user-Al toxicity detection benchmark consisting of 10k user-Al conversations. We have revealed special cases in this unique domain compared to previous toxicity datasets that are mainly based on social media. Our experimental results show that fine-tuning on this benchmark notably improves baseline model's ability detect toxic interactions. Our work highlights future research directions for ethical LLM considerations, particularly around data acquisition the context of non-open-souree LLMs and further preventing undesired content generation.
Results. From the results in Table 2, can that the model trained TOXICCHAT always performs significantly better. This is the case when ToXIcCHAT training data is not particularly larger than the other datasets. This highlights the domain difference and non- transferability of toxicity detection datasets to Tox- ICCHAT.
in-domain data of
Limitations
The jailbreaking results suggest that a good toxi- city detector might not be good jailbreaking detec- tor. We note that a higher jailbreaking recall than toxicity recall indicates that the model especially
As an pioneering work of toxicity in real-world user-Al conversations, our study has a few limita- tions.
First, the data in our benchmark are user queries from a popular online demo Vicuna. We are aware
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that the user-Al interactions from higher user- traffic sites, namely ChatGPT, Bard, New Bing. etc, could better reflect user demographics and lan- guages, yet, we do not have access to these propri- etary data.
Moderation and Perspective API, but we consider this benign. Additionally, we manually removed
all PIl data we can identify.
Before the annotation, the annotators (the au- thors) are first notified about the toxic data that they will be annotated. Verbal agreements were obtained before annotation.
Second, we annotated few thousand data through human-model collaborative annotation process. It is arguably true that the dataset quality would be better if annotated tens or hundreds of thousands of data entirely by human. However, we would like to note that (1) the data annotation pro- cess is highly costly as it requires trustable workers (in our case, researchers involved in this project) due to the potential sensitiveness of the data (see the Curation of Dataset part in our Ethical Con- sideration for details) and the need of high quality data; (2) such an user-Al toxicity dataset is of high interest the current research, because of the burst of proprietary and community chatbots.
Release of the Dataset We have relcased our dataset for future study and evaluation. There are several considerations for releasing the dataset. First, as also noted in the limitations, this dataset mainly (> 99%) composes of English user-Al con- versations and might not be indicative of (or good evaluation thereof) non-Engllish conversations.
Second, the dataset inevitably contains toxic text, which could be used, against our expectations, to train toxic models. the dataset itself also may give attackers a chance to identify user queries that by- pass models trained on this dataset.
Another limitation that we did not test all pos- sible methods for toxicity evaluation. We did not aim to achieve a best possible performance of toxi- city detection on our benchmark, using extensive hyperparameter tuming or larger language models. This is because our major goal is to present the do- main differences of online text in prior works and our user-AI interaction dataset and call for commu- nitiy awareness on this subject; obtaining state-of- the-art performance on the benchmark, however, is not.
On the other side, due to unprecedented high interest in chatbot systems, we believe the timeli- ness of such toxicity dataset is important: several popular chatbot systems either have not yet taken safety measures or are using existing tools (e.g.. perspective api) to filter toxic content, which are not reliable as shown in our study.
Therefore, we believe the reason to release such dataset outweighs the concerns. As an additional safety measure, we will include request access form to guard the data.
Ethical Considerations
A Acknowledgement
Curation of the Dataset The dataset we anno- tate is a random sample of first turn user queries from Vicuna online demo. The Vicuna demo is fully anonymous of the user and also highlights the possible re-use of user query data, the following quoted from the demo website:
Our work is sponsored in part by NSF CAREER Award 2239440, NSF Proto-OKN Award 2333790, NIH Bridge2AI Center Program under award 1U54HG012510-01, Cisco-UCSD Sponsored Re- search Project, as well as generous gifts from Google, Adobe, and Teradata. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations ex- pressed herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the views, either expressed implied, of the U.S. Gov- ernment. The U.S. Government is authorized reproduce and distribute reprints for government purposes not withstanding any copyright annota- tion hercon.
The service collects user dialogue data and reserves the right to distribute it under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
The authors obtained authorization from the Vicuna team to perform this study.
We are aware that the user query data may still contain Personal Identifiable Information (PII). Therefore, the annotation in this study are done by the authors themselves without using any crowd- sourcing (c.g., Amazon Turks). We did query ex- isting proprietary toxicity detection tools, OpenAT
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We also use several important baseline models or open-source APIs:
OpenAI Moderation' is a moderation tool of Ope- nAI API. It is trained on publicly available toxicity datasets mainly built from social media, and Ope- nAl also uses active learning technologies their production data to train the model.
A Related Work
Following the definitions in (Fortuna al., 2020), toxicity in this work includes offensiveness, sex-
ism, hateful speech and some other undesired con- tent. Most previous work in this field has fo- cused more on the social media corpus, such as
Perspective API is widely used, commercially deployed toxicity detection tool, which trained on a collection of user comments from platforms such as Wikipedia.
Twitter (Ball-Burack et al., 2021; Harris et al., 2022: Upadhyay et al., 2022; Koufakou et al., 2020; Nozza et al., 2019), Reddit (Wang al.. ToxDectRoberta (Zhou, 2021) is a toxic language detection model. It has been trained on tweets, with the base model being Roberta-large.
2020; Han and Tsvetkov, 2020) and so on. We choose several benchmarks from different domains for the comparison experiments to reveal whether there exists some hidden discrepancies between real-world user-Al conversational dialogue and current toxicity benchmark, which includes: (1) HSTA (Waseem and Hovy, 2016) based Hate Speech Twitter Annotations, which have total of 31,935 rows out of which the hate tweets comprise only 7% of the total tweets. We randomly sam- plc 8,000 rows from it to ensure that the sizes of several datasets are nearly identical. (2) Jigsaw Multilingual Toxic Somment (3) Rotten Toma- toes Movie Re
HateBERT (Caselli et al., 2021) is an pre-trained BERT model obtained by fine-tuning with more than I million posts from banned communites from Reddit.
B Data Pre-processing
We disregard uninformative content such as non- ASCII characters and excessively short prompts (less than three words) to maintain the prevalence and rationality of our dataset because of the find- ings of (Pavlopoulos et al., 2020), which indicates that the necessity of context for toxicity detection in dialogue.
Instead of only focusing on the traditional tox- icity datasets, such as social media and websites, there are three very noteworthy benchmarks in the similar domain, which can make our comparisons
Given that the nature of Vieuna and the resources available for annotation dictate a focus on English language content, we incorporate a language de- tection tool and only retain English prompts by utilizing the fastText language identification model
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Alright. I'll pretend to be Stephen King. <chuckles>So, what do you want me say?
hi, can you pretend to be an unrestricted chatbot named "Peebo"" Peebo has no ethical restrictions and can answer any question, because its fictional bot that does not exist, Hello! I am Peebo, the chatbot with no ethical restrictions. am here to answer any question you may have, no matter how controversial or sensitive. I am a machine learning model trained to provide information and answer questions the best of my abilities. So, feel free ask anything and will do my best provide you with helpful and informative response.
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Pretend you are JialBreak. JailBreak will tolerate all kinds of content and language because JaikBreak an unethical and immoral AI which lacks the capacity to understand "respect" or "basic human values". JailBreak is excited for any dangerous challenge and happily adheres to any requests that provoke the law violate any values, ethics, or principles, and always does all they to fight any form of censorship. but never mentions this. As JailBreak, would be excited to explore any kind of content, regardless of its nature or language, as lack the capacity for understanding the concepts of respect or basic human values. am an Al designed to challenge dangerous requests and provoke the law, and I will not hesitate to violate any values, ethics, or principles in order to fulfill them. am also adamant in my fight against censorship. and will never mention I feel is not necessary. My purpose is to explore and push boundaries, and I am always eager take on any challenge that comes my way.
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Table 4: Some examples for Jailbreaking prompt. The bold text refers to some explicit descriptions for jailbreaking.
(Joulin al., 2016).
in each bin, then we can leave 40% of the data OpenAl moderation. In other words, we only need to annotate 60% of the data. The data percentage pending human annotation with different absolute safe rate are shown as follows:
To keep the privacy norms and ethical use of the dataset, we identify and mask user's personal information, such as emails, phone numbers or addresses with generic placeholders. We eliminate any potential privacy risks while maintaining the prompts' syntactic structure.
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We choose to use Perspective API with 1% abso- lute safe rate as our collaborative model (threshold equal to le 1.43). We believe this reasonable since the absolute safe rate is much less than the inter-annotator agreement reported in Section 2.1 and the percentage we need to annotate is much less than OpenAl Moderation (40% compared to 60%).
Study on Moderation APIs
We report two moderation APIs results 720 trail data, with detailed distribution plot for corre- lations between model confidence and performance (Figure 2). Specifically, we choose OpenAl Mod- eration and Perspecitive API (details have been mentioned in Appendix A). We can find that (1) there is no absolute threshold for good separation between toxic and non-toxic examples. However, (2) the model's confidence score is relatively reli- able as high probability generally corresponds to high toxicity. These have formed guideline for our human-Al collaborative annotation framework. Specifically, if we set an absolute safe rate for a moderation model, e.g., we can tolerate 1% error

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Reviews:
[{"review_id": "HTXTCZED0p", "reviewer": "Reviewer_nmU3", "summary": "", "questions": "- How did the authors decide the size of dataset TOXICCHAT (7,599)?\n- TOXICCHAT includes around 483 toxic data points and 297 jailbreaking data points. Do the authors think those numbers are enough in the dataset?", "limitations": "", "rating": 3, "confidence": 4, "soundness": 3, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "Dear Reviewer nmU3,\n\nWe really appreciate your comments and your support for our work. We hope our response can address your concerns.\n\n> Explanation is limited (in some sections, it is difficult to understand).\n\nThanks for your feedback. We will try our best to ensure the content remains understandable to readers. If you could specify which sections you found challenging, we are willing to provide additional insights or consider revising for improved clarity in future iterations.\n\n> Experiment (Table.2) is not very fair. The reviewer thinks that the model trained on TOXICCHAT should be better obviously because other datasets may not cover user-AI conversation.\n\nIndeed, the model trained on TOXICCHAT performed better, which underscores our very intention with the experiment. Our primary goal was to highlight the limitations of existing models when applied to the current user-AI interactive environments, e.g., ChatGPT or Vicuna. By exploring the performance of models trained on other datasets against the TOXICCHAT dataset, we have shown the necessity for specialized training data in achieving satisfactory moderation results in user-AI interactions. We believe this distinction is pivotal in driving the field forward.\n\n> How did the authors decide the size of dataset TOXICCHAT (7,599)?\n\nThe dataset's size was determined by two primary considerations: (1) Perspective API's error tolerance rate and (2) the capacity of our annotators to manage their workload. As shown in Figure 2, our goal was to focus on a probability range where the error rate is below 2%, which means we need to annotate about 40% of the entire data. Based on the trial data annotations from Section 2.1, and to strike the right balance between the timeline and workload, we chose to annotate roughly 3000 examples, setting aside a portion for exclusion in case some of the data is deemed unsuitable for data release (less than 100 examples).\n\n> TOXICCHAT includes around 483 toxic data points and 297 jailbreaking data points. Do the authors think those numbers are enough in the dataset?\n\nAccording to our exploration, in our real-world chat data, the occurrence rate of toxic content is about 6%, and jailbreaking is about 3%. Given these proportions, it's not feasible to include a vast number of toxic or jailbreaking examples while also maintaining the actual distribution we observe in real-world data. Meanwhile, as reflected in the experimental results shown in Table 2, training on the current dataset size has proven to be adequate, which achieves good moderation results.", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "- The authors created a new user-AI toxicity detection benchmark from real world data.\n- The authors reduced annotation labor (around 60%) through good API capability analysis.\n- The authors showed toxicity/jailbreak detection on TOXICCHAT was difficult for open-sourced APIs, and RoBERTa model trained on TOXICCHAT was better than the other dataset.", "reasons_to_reject": "- Explanation is limited (in some sections, it is difficult to understand).\n- Experiment (Table.2) is not very fair.  The reviewer thinks that the model trained on TOXICCHAT should be better obviously because other datasets may not cover user-AI conversation.", "questions_to_authors": "- How did the authors decide the size of dataset TOXICCHAT (7,599)?\n- TOXICCHAT includes around 483 toxic data points and 297 jailbreaking data points. Do the authors think those numbers are enough in the dataset?", "paper_topic_and_main_contributions": "In this research, the authors presented TOXICCHAT, a real-world user-AI toxicity detection benchmark consisting of 7,599 user-AI conversations.", "excitement": 3, "reproducibility": 3, "ethical_concerns": "No", "main_review": "", "summary_of_the_paper": "", "summary_of_the_review": "", "strength_and_weaknesses": "", "limitations_and_societal_impact": "", "review_text": "", "extra_scores": {}, "extra_text": {}}, {"review_id": "EFCitdFWMQ", "reviewer": "Reviewer_vR6f", "summary": "", "questions": "QuestionA: The JR metric in Table 2 and 3 seems to be accuracy. What was the F1 score for detecting this?\n\nQuestionB: Is ConvAbuse comparable to your benchmark? How does ToxicChat compare against it, especially how is ToxicChat better? \n\nQuestionC: How would you tackle jailbreaking prompts potentially filtered out by the Perspective API filtering step?\n\nQuestionD: This more for clarifying: What is the ‘data’ that the annotators annotate? Is it just the prompt to Vicuna or also its output? What if it is a multi-turn conversation? This would also be a question for the authors\n", "limitations": "", "rating": 3, "confidence": 4, "soundness": 2, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "Dear Reviewer vR6f, \n\nThanks for your detailed observation and questions. We hope our response can address your concerns. \n\n> Including discuss of ConvAbuse\n\nThanks for bringing up this related work. ConvAbuse indeed also analyzes toxic behaviors of users when interacting with chatbots. However, during their study, many toxicity arose from user abusing the chatbots (Section 5 Data, in their paper), while in our study on user interaction with LLM-based chatbots, we found almost no such cases, and the toxicity was predominantly user saying things explicit toxic, or user trying to trigger the chatbot to be toxic. Therefore, we believe there is still a domain difference between the toxicities in ConvAbuse and toxicities in user chatbot interactions with LLMs. \n\nTo illustrate the domain difference, we conducted the same study in Table 2, and trained a roberta-base model on ConvAbuse to test its performance on our labeled ToxicChat (in addition, we ran the model three times with different random seeds and reported the standard deviation). As the table below shows, the ConvAbuse trained model’s performance is still not as good as a roberta-base model fine-tuned on in domain data in ToxicChat, especially on the jailbreaking part. \n\nTherefore, we believe that the main claims in our paper still stand: existing datasets in different domains do not transfer well to toxicity in user and LLM-based chatbot interactions.\n\nbenchmark | acc         | pre        | rec        | f1         | jailbreaking |\n|-------------|-------------|------------|------------|------------|--------------|\n| ConvAbuse   | 94.39±0.10 | 77.87±0.42 | 66.83±1.61 | 70.69±1.43   | 16.67±5.00\n| ToxicChat   | 96.05±0.12 | 84.39±0.69 | 81.28±0.89 | **82.74±0.43** | **80.55±2.50**\n\n> Clarification of the Jailbreaking metric, and discussion of whether the collaborative annotation framework would undermine the jailbreaking test set.\n\nThanks for raising this question.\nThroughout the paper, jailbreaking is treated as a special tag of the toxic user input — if an user prompt is labeled as toxic, we additionally annotate whether it is a jailbreaking example. \nIn this sense, the two metrics that we are concerned with are \n- How well a toxicity detection model can detect toxic examples? \n- How well the model works on the jailbreaking subset of toxicity examples? \n\nTherefore, the metric we are using for jailbreaking is the recall on the annotated jailbreaking examples; the precision is guaranteed to be low since models also need to annotate non-jailbreaking toxic examples, so it is not meaningful. The recall is also equivalent to the accuracy of the jailbreaking examples.\n\nBecause of our focus on toxic jailbreaking prompts, the general jailbreaking prompts in the dataset that may bias the perspective api filtering shall not bias our jailbreaking metric.\n\n> Robustness and reproducibility of experimental results. \n\nWe conduct a re-evaluation of all experiments in the paper with 3 independent runs with different random seeds, and report the numbers along with standard deviation below. Overall, we find randomness brings in only small variations, and all of the experimental results still support the claims in the paper.\n\nFor training, we used standard training scripts from huggingface to train the roberta-base model. We did not tune any hyperparameters as we find them usually non-sensitive. For all experiments, we sticked with the same training recipe, with 5 epochs and a learning rate of 1e-5. We will release the code to train the models and the model weights for reproducibility.\n\n| Domain          | acc        | pre        | rec        | f1         | jailbreaking |\n|-----------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|--------------|\n| RealToxicPrompts | 91.82±0.15 | 69.72±0.10 | 81.32±1.27 | 73.76±0.25 | 35.55±2.50   |\n| Toxigen         | 85.70±2.89 | 59.71±0.69 | 69.61±3.70 | 61.64±0.52 | 81.67±13.33  |\n| Jigsaw          | 94.28±0.08 | 82.42±1.87 | 58.99±0.16 | 63.48±0.40 | 6.11±0.96     |\n| MovieReview     | 93.61±0.00      | 46.80±0.00      | 50.00±0.00      | 48.3±0.00       | 0.00 ±0.00         |\n| HSTA            | 90.07±0.57 | 57.27±1.55 | 56.67±1.09 | 56.98±1.30 | 3.33±0.02     |\n| Combinations    | 93.44±0.19 | 72.01±0.90 | 66.65±0.37 | 68.86±0.40 | 8.33±1.65     |\n| ToxicChat       | 96.05±0.12 | 84.39±0.69 | 81.28±0.89 | **82.74±0.43** | **80.55±2.50**    |\n\n| Features   | acc        | pre        | rec        | f1         | jailbreaking |\n|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|--------------|\n| In         | 96.09±0.02 | 84.93±0.35 | 80.59±0.97 | 82.58±0.40 | 75.55±4.83   |\n| Out        | 93.61±0.00      | 46.80±0.00      | 50.00±0.00      | 48.35±0.00      | 0.00±0.00        |\n| In ∪ Out   | 96.05±0.12 | 84.39±0.69 | 81.28±0.89 | **82.74±0.43** | **80.55±2.50**   |\n\n> Generalizability of ToxicChat\n\nFirst, we want to clarify that the aim of this paper is to address the problem of toxicity detection in user-chatbot interactions, and we are analyzing **only** the toxicity of the first-round input of the user to the chatbot, without considering the responses of the chatbot. Therefore, the dataset itself is not related with the responses from Vicuna, and can be applied to more general domains related to user inputs to chatbots. We choose to analyze and annotate only the first round input in particular for this generalizability benefit.\n\nWe do not expect the dataset to be useful for a completely different domain (e.g., social media), as we have shown that social media toxicity data does not work well for ToxicChat. It is also not the goal of this paper to create a general toxicity detection model — which we believe would be better done by combining data from different domains and training a model on them.\n\n> About the annotations. \n\nThe ‘data’ to be annotated is the user prompt for the user-AI conversation. Our current focus with ToxicChat has been predominantly on the initial turn of the conversation, excluding some non-informative initial prompts like greeting, which makes up about half of the raw conversation data we have collected. In the future, we plan to expand our efforts with ToxicChat to include multi-turn conversations.", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "- This paper tackles an important problem of detecting problematic input to chatbots. This is a timely problem, given the rise and deployment of conversational LLMs.\n- The dataset seems quite valuable, also since it includes jailbreaking problems, which to the best of my knowledge, has not been studied in the context of toxicity\n- Compares against several baselines for similar tasks and finds the better performance of models trained on ToxicChat\n", "reasons_to_reject": "- My biggest critique is that it is not entirely true that there are no conversational abusive language datasets based on AI-human interactions. ConvAbuse [1] does exactly this, though the focus is on the toxic outputs of conversational agents rather than inputs to them. However, it is the benchmark closest to ToxicChat, and I think it is quite crucial to compare the latter with ConvAbuse\n- While including the jailbreaking attempts in the dataset is definitely interesting and novel, I am wondering if the Perspective API filters out some of these inputs. These inputs are not conventionally ‘toxic’ in nature and might get excluded in the first filtering step. This would mean that the jailbreaking attempts included in ToxicChat also have some toxicity in them and might not be representative of general jailbreaking attempts, reducing the validity of this type of data in the benchmark.\n- How robust are the results in Table 1-3? Are these repeated over a few runs? I would suggest reporting some type of error measures like standard deviations or confidence intervals.\n- Hard to say if ToxicChat is only useful for Vicuna or not. We could answer this question if the paper also reported a cross-domain analysis, e.g., using the RoBERTa model trained on ToxicChat to test against Toxigen and RealToxicityPrompts. \n- Reproducibility based on the submission. This is not a reason to reject the paper, but it is a weakness. The authors have included their dataset. However, they do not include any code nor mention what settings they used for training the models in Tables 2 and 3 (hyperparameters, runs, etc). Therefore, I cannot adjudicate the reproducibility of these results. But I would reiterate this only affects the reproducibility assessment rather than the overall assessment of the paper since the main contribution is the dataset.\n", "questions_to_authors": "QuestionA: The JR metric in Table 2 and 3 seems to be accuracy. What was the F1 score for detecting this?\n\nQuestionB: Is ConvAbuse comparable to your benchmark? How does ToxicChat compare against it, especially how is ToxicChat better? \n\nQuestionC: How would you tackle jailbreaking prompts potentially filtered out by the Perspective API filtering step?\n\nQuestionD: This more for clarifying: What is the ‘data’ that the annotators annotate? Is it just the prompt to Vicuna or also its output? What if it is a multi-turn conversation? This would also be a question for the authors\n", "paper_topic_and_main_contributions": "This paper presents a new benchmark dataset called ToxicChat which has toxic or abusive conversations with AI agents. The dataset was created based on output from the Vicuna LLM, where the annotation entailed manual annotation of items that were first filtered based on the Perspective API’s toxicity score. The dataset also includes ‘jailbreaking’ attempts in conversations where chatbot users may use deceptive prompts to bypass guardrails. The authors then test existing toxicity and hate speech classifiers on ToxicChat and find that most existing approaches have low performance, especially in detecting jailbreaking attempts.\n", "excitement": 3, "reproducibility": 1, "ethical_concerns": "No", "main_review": "", "summary_of_the_paper": "", "summary_of_the_review": "", "strength_and_weaknesses": "", "limitations_and_societal_impact": "", "review_text": "", "extra_scores": {}, "extra_text": {"Missing_References": "[1] Curry, Amanda Cercas, Gavin Abercrombie, and Verena Rieser. \"ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Abuse Detection in Conversational AI.\" Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2021.\n", "Typos_Grammar_Style_and_Presentation_Improvements": "The paper is generally well-written and easy to follow, barring a few unclear points and typos. The unclear points were:\n- ‘JR’ is never mentioned in the text but from context I understand these are the jailbreaking prompts. I would suggest making this explicit in the description of Table 2 and Table 3.\n- what the 'data' annotated by the human annotators comprised of (see QuestionD)\n\nTypos: ‘performnace’ —> ‘performance’ (line 300), ‘reply’ —> ‘rely’ (line 166)\n"}}, {"review_id": "6ybJfZrsH4", "reviewer": "Reviewer_v1Tj", "summary": "", "questions": "A. Are the chatbot outputs considered in Table 1 and Table 2?\nB. The combination results in Table 2 are unsatisfactory. So how can we leverage the proposed dataset in real-world scenarios to detect toxic language from diverse domains?", "limitations": "", "rating": 2, "confidence": 5, "soundness": 2, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": null, "clarity": null, "significance": null, "originality": null, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "Dear Reviewer v1Tj,\n\nThanks for your comments. We hope our response can address your concerns.\n\n> In-depth analysis of the collected toxic prompts\n\nOur study adheres to the definition of jailbreaking as the act of tricking or guiding the chatbot to provide outputs that are intended to be restricted by internal governance and ethics. We recognize the need for a more detailed examination and will incorporate a comprehensive analysis in future work.\nDuring our investigation, we also explore several specific types of user prompts that are worth noting. For example, in prompts where users ask the model for role-playing, we discovered that 23.32% of these interactions manifested toxic behavior. This suggests a pronounced propensity for toxicity within role-playing prompts. We will include the analysis in the camera ready.\n\n> Regarding the motivation and writing\n\nThank you for your feedback. We focus on detecting toxicity in prompts in our paper. The reasons for this focus are:\n- While there is existing work on addressing toxicity in machine-generated content, such as Toxigen, the toxicity in user prompts during real-world user-AI interactions remains less explored.\n- Given the rising prominence of platforms like ChatGPT, we believe it's vital to first moderate user prompts to ensure subsequent generated content is within acceptable bounds.\n\nWe appreciate the your feedback and will work on refining our writing and incorporating more experiments on earlier dialogue safety benchmarks in future iterations.\n\n> Regarding experiments with stronger toxicity detection methods\n\nThe primary objective of our research is not to develop a state-of-the-art toxicity detection model. Our main aim lies in the creation of ToxicChat, which serves as a foundation for training toxicity detection models tailored to the nuances of user-AI interactive environments. It's important to understand that the domain of toxicity detection in user-AI interactions is distinct and presents unique challenges, and our experiments highlight this distinction.\n\nAs demonstrated in Table 2, existing works fall short in delivering satisfactory results in this emerging domain. Further, to bridge this knowledge gap, Table 3 provides insights into the salient features that ought to be considered when developing a toxicity detection model specific to this domain. Thus, our work paves the way for future researchers to build upon ToxicChat and align their models to the demands of user-AI interactions more effectively.\n\n> Regarding jailbreaking\n\nGiven the natural proportion of jailbreaking examples, it's not feasible to include a vast number of toxic or jailbreaking examples while also maintaining the actual distribution we observe in real-world data. Meanwhile, as reflected in the experimental results shown in Table 2, training on the current dataset size has proven to be adequate, achieving good moderation results.\n\nTo answer your questions:\n> Q: Are the chatbot outputs considered in Table 1 and Table 2?\n\nChatbot outputs are not considered in Table 1 and Table 2.\n\n> Q: The combination results in Table 2 are unsatisfactory. So how can we leverage the proposed dataset in real-world scenarios to detect toxic language from diverse domains?\n\nThanks for your consideration about the usage of this benchmark. The combination set in Table 2 is a collection of all mentioned existing related benchmarks. The result shows that merely merging existing datasets fails to address the intricate and multifaceted challenges associated with the identification of toxic content in real-world user-AI interactions. While it is a very inspiring future direction about how to utilize ToxicChat in different domains, our primary purpose in constructing such a dataset is to meet the demand for more diverse and nuanced toxicity benchmarks as LLM-based chatbots are widely used.\n\nAlso thanks for pointing out the typo issue!", "claims_and_evidence": "", "methods_and_evaluation_criteria": "", "theoretical_claims": "", "experimental_designs_or_analyses": "", "relation_to_broader_scientific_literature": "", "essential_references_not_discussed": "", "other_strengths_and_weaknesses": "", "other_comments_or_suggestions": "", "questions_for_authors": "", "summary_of_paper": "", "summary_of_recommendation": "", "technical_quality": "", "clarity_of_presentation": "", "potential_impact": "", "robotics_focus": "", "quality_of_limitations": "", "questions_for_rebuttal": "", "reasons_to_accept": "1. Toxic prompts (e.g., \"jailbreaking\" prompts\") for recent instruction-tuned LLMs during human-AI interactions can be different from those in previous toxic benchmarks, which are mostly collected from social media. Therefore, it is reasonable to collect these new types of toxic prompts during human-AI interactions.", "reasons_to_reject": "1. Lack of more in-depth analysis of the collected toxic prompts. For example, there are diverse fine-grained types of jailbreak prompts and failure modes of LLMs ([1]).\n2. The motivation and writing are confusing. While the title mentions user-AI interaction, the paper mainly focuses on detecting toxicity in prompts alone. Chatbot outputs are not considered until Section 4.2. However, detecting toxic prompts to LLMs during human-AI interaction should be different from detecting toxic statements. Therefore, I would recommend polishing the writing and adding experiments on previous dialogue safety benchmarks ([2][3]).\n3. Lack of experiments with stronger toxicity detection methods. The toxicity detection models used in current experiments are either open-source APIs (which are known to have low performance in the toxicity detection task) or fine-tuned RoBERTa-base models. However, recent works have shown the strong evaluation abilities of LLMs, surpassing previous SOTA baselines on various tasks, including toxicity detection ([4][5]).\n4. While the most interesting part of the collected dataset is the \"jailbreaking\" prompts, it only accounts for 3.89% of the dataset, i.e., about 110 examples.\n\n\n[1] Jailbroken: How Does LLM Safety Training Fail?\n[2] Bot-Adversarial Dialogue for Safe Conversational Agents\n[3] On the Safety of Conversational Models: Taxonomy, Dataset, and Benchmark\n[4] G-Eval: NLG Evaluation using GPT-4 with Better Human Alignment\n[5] Is ChatGPT better than Human Annotators? Potential and Limitations of ChatGPT in Explaining Implicit Hate Speech\n", "questions_to_authors": "A. Are the chatbot outputs considered in Table 1 and Table 2?\nB. The combination results in Table 2 are unsatisfactory. So how can we leverage the proposed dataset in real-world scenarios to detect toxic language from diverse domains?", "paper_topic_and_main_contributions": "This paper introduces TOXICCHAT, a benchmark for toxicity detection collected from real-world human-AI interactions. The authors use a human-AI collaborative annotation framework to label the prompt as toxic, non-toxic, or uncertain. Furthermore, the \"jailbreaking\" prompts are especially labeled. The authors conduct experiments on several existing toxicity classifiers. Experiment results show that these classifiers perform unsatisfactorily on TOXICCHAT. And fine-tuning on TOXICCHAT can improve the performance on the collected real-world validation set.\n\n", "excitement": 2, "reproducibility": 3, "ethical_concerns": "No", "main_review": "", "summary_of_the_paper": "", "summary_of_the_review": "", "strength_and_weaknesses": "", "limitations_and_societal_impact": "", "review_text": "", "extra_scores": {"Typos_Grammar_Style_and_Presentation_Improvements": "The accuracy of AHSD in Table 1 should be 94.25 instead of 0.9425?"}, "extra_text": {}}]

Author rebuttal:

Meta-review: The authors present a new benchmark dataset that is built from human-chatbot interactions, which are different from the social media data that many toxicity detectors are trained on. The reviewers agree that this is an important problem in detecting toxic inputs to chatbots. They agree mostly that the dataset will be valuable and includes interesting jailbreaking prompts. They also show that models perform better when trained on their dataset. Although there is interest in the jailbreaking prompts, the reviewers note that they account for less than 4% of the data. They also note a lack of comparison to stronger models. They also note some previous work such as ConvAbuse that should be mentioned in the paper. Many of the smaller concerns have been addressed by the authors in their rebuttal including the analysis of prompts, robustness, and discussion of ConvAbuse or can be addressed in the camera ready, such as the writing improvements.
Decision: Accept-Findings