A Data-Centric Approach for Safe and Secure Large Language Models against Threatening and Toxic Content

Large Language Models (LLM) have made remarkable progress, but concerns about potential biases and harmful content persist. To address these apprehensions, we introduce a practical solution for ensuring LLM's safe and ethical use. Our novel approach focuses on a post-generation correction mechanism, the BART-Corrective Model, which adjusts generated content to ensure safety and security. Unlike relying solely on model fine-tuning or prompt engineering, our method provides a robust data-centric alternative for mitigating harmful content. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through experiments on multiple toxic datasets, which show a significant reduction in mean toxicity and jail-breaking scores after integration. Specifically, our results show a reduction of 15% and 21% in mean toxicity and jail-breaking scores with GPT-4, a substantial reduction of 28% and 5% with PaLM2, a reduction of approximately 26% and 23% with Mistral-7B, and a reduction of 11.1% and 19% with Gemma-2b-it. These results demonstrate the potential of our approach to improve the safety and security of LLM, making them more suitable for real-world applications.

@article{njeh2025_2504.16120,
  title={ A Data-Centric Approach for Safe and Secure Large Language Models against Threatening and Toxic Content },
  author={ Chaima Njeh and Haïfa Nakouri and Fehmi Jaafar },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16120},
  year={ 2025 }
}