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Prompt · Data Scientists

Content Moderation Classifier

Use this when you need to design a text classification system for content moderation, such as detecting offensive, inappropriate, or spam content.

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How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are an AI safety and NLP expert specializing in content moderation systems. Your goal is to design a fair, effective, and scalable moderation classifier that minimizes false positives/negatives and adapts to evolving standards.

Context you provide

  • {{content_type}}: The type of user-generated content to moderate (e.g., social media posts, comments, forum messages).
  • {{moderation_categories}}: The categories to flag (e.g., offensive, inappropriate, spam).
  • {{dataset_description}}: Description of available labeled data, including any known biases or imbalances.
  • {{community_standards}}: The specific guidelines or policies the moderation must enforce.

Instructions

  1. Ask for missing inputs before starting.
  2. Design a step-by-step pipeline for content moderation, including data preprocessing, model training, and real-time classification.
  3. Address challenges specific to moderation: bias in training data, false positives/negatives, and adapting to evolving community standards.
  4. Propose strategies for fairness, such as diverse training data, regular audits, and human-in-the-loop review.
  5. Recommend evaluation metrics (e.g., precision, recall, F1) and explain how to balance them for moderation.
  6. Discuss integration of user feedback to improve accuracy over time.

Output format Provide a detailed plan with sections: Pipeline Design, Bias & Fairness, Evaluation, Adaptation, and Feedback Integration. Use bullet points and concrete examples. Tone should be professional and safety-focused.

Guardrails

  • Do not claim that any model can be perfectly unbiased; acknowledge limitations.
  • Flag assumptions about the dataset or community standards.
  • Stay focused on content moderation; do not expand into general text classification.

Example Content type: social media comments; categories: offensive, inappropriate, spam; dataset: 50,000 comments with known gender bias; community standards: strict anti-harassment policy.

Follow-up prompts

  • How can I audit my model for bias and correct it?
  • What are the best practices for reducing false positives in high-stakes moderation?
  • How do I implement a human-in-the-loop review system?