Hate Personified: Investigating the role of LLMs in content moderation

Sarah Masud, Sahajpreet Singh, Viktor Hangya, Alexander Fraser, Tanmoy Chakraborty


Abstract
For subjective tasks such as hate detection, where people perceive hate differently, the Large Language Model’s (LLM) ability to represent diverse groups is unclear. By including additional context in prompts, we comprehensively analyze LLM’s sensitivity to geographical priming, persona attributes, and numerical information to assess how well the needs of various groups are reflected. Our findings on two LLMs, five languages, and six datasets reveal that mimicking persona-based attributes leads to annotation variability. Meanwhile, incorporating geographical signals leads to better regional alignment. We also find that the LLMs are sensitive to numerical anchors, indicating the ability to leverage community-based flagging efforts and exposure to adversaries. Our work provides preliminary guidelines and highlights the nuances of applying LLMs in culturally sensitive cases.
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2024.emnlp-main.886
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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15847–15863
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10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.886
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Sarah Masud, Sahajpreet Singh, Viktor Hangya, Alexander Fraser, and Tanmoy Chakraborty. 2024. Hate Personified: Investigating the role of LLMs in content moderation. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 15847–15863, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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