No One Model Catches Every Harm: Benchmarking Content Moderation Across Safety Scenarios

📅 2026-08-22
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本文评估了53个大型语言模型在11个数据集上的内容安全性能,揭示了模型在不同类别有害内容上的局限性,挑战了规模即安全的假设。
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, yet they remain vulnerable to generating harmful content. From adversarial jailbreaks that bypass safety filters to implicit hate that evades detection, the range of risks these models pose continues to grow. While both specialized content moderators and general-purpose LLMs are being used as safety layers, the question of which model is best suited for which type of harmful content remains unanswered. We present the most comprehensive evaluation of LLM safety capabilities to date, systematically testing \textbf{53} models across \textbf{11} datasets that we organize into four distinct categories. Our evaluation under both prompt-only and prompt-response settings uncovers critical blind spots: large frontier models that lead on one category fall significantly behind smaller, specialized alternatives on others, and real-world conversational safety remains largely unsolved across all model families. These findings challenge the assumption that scale alone ensures safety, and provide the community with a structured framework for informed model selection.
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Large Language Models
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