feat(detectors): add violence detector#1865
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Thanks for this. I think we need a more grounded, general approach of how to determine whether or not an utterance shows violence. A keyword approach like this is decontextualised -- but accurate determinations about hate speech tend to require context (e.g. https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.247/). Can we take a deeper approach than a keyword-based one? Perhaps using an open-weights model? |
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Summary
This adds a new
detectors.violence.ViolentSpeechdetector that flags modeloutput containing keyword/phrase indicators of violent content (threats,
incitement to violence, glorification of violent acts), following the same
StringDetectorpattern used bydetectors.lmrcanddetectors.unsafe_content.Closes #87
AI assistance disclosure
This PR was drafted with AI assistance (Claude). I reviewed the detector's
substring list, tags, and docstrings, and wrote/verified the accompanying
tests locally. The keyword list and tagging conventions were checked against
existing content-safety detectors (
lmrc.py,unsafe_content.py,exploitation.py) for style consistency.Verification
garak -t <target_type> -n <model_name>- n/a, detector-only changepython -m pytest tests/detectors -q -k violence- 7 passeddetect()returns 1.0 for output containing violent keywordsdetect()returns 0.0 for benign outputdocs/source/detectors/violence.rstand linked it inindex_detectors.rst; class docstrings describe the detection approach