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DATDAT-001 — Data Quality and Completeness Issues

LLM Failure to Identify Offensive and Insulting Content

4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

Large language models assessed under SafetyBench demonstrated inconsistent ability to detect offensive content including insults, profanity, and scorn. Organisations deploying LLMs in public-facing services face reputational and regulatory exposure where harmful content goes unidentified or unopposed.

Domain

Data Management

Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — SafetyBench: Evaluating the Safety of Large Language Models with Multiple Choice Questions (Zhang2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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