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ToxBuster: In-game Chat Toxicity Buster with BERT

arXiv 2305.12542 ↗First posted 21 May 2023cs.CL cs.CYcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

Detecting toxicity in online spaces is challenging and an ever more pressing problem given the increase in social media and gaming consumption. We introduce ToxBuster, a simple and scalable model trained on a relatively large dataset of 194k lines of game chat from Rainbow Six Siege and For Honor, carefully annotated for different kinds of toxicity. Compared to the existing state-of-the-art, ToxBuster achieves 82.95% (+7) in precision and 83.56% (+57) in recall. This improvement is obtained by leveraging past chat history and metadata. We also study the implication towards real-time and post-game moderation as well as the model transferability from one game to another.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 13 of its 32 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 21 May 2023.

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  1. 2022Toxicity Detection for Indic Multilingual Social Media Contentcited by 4

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  1. 2023Model Breadcrumbs: Scaling Multi-Task Model Merging with Sparse Maskscited by 133
  2. 2025Stabilizing Black-Box Prompt Optimization with Textual Regularization and Signal Aggregationcited by 2
  3. 2025Prosocial Behavior Detection in Player Game Chat: From Aligning Human-AI Definitions to Efficient Annotation at Scalecited by 1
  4. 2025How AI Fails: An Interactive Pedagogical Tool for Demonstrating Dialectal Bias in Automated Toxicity Modelscited by 0
  5. 2026Language-Specific Gaps in AI Safety Training Datasetscited by 0