Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming a part of our everyday lives by being used as tools for information search, content creation, writing assistance, and many more.
Approach: They propose to use Large Language Models to detect offensive online language in applications with social risk, such as late-life companions and online content moderators.
Outcome: The proposed models fail to detect offensive language and are therefore unsuitable for use in social applications such as late-life companions and online content moderators.

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