Bias and Cyberbullying Detection and Data Generation Using Transformer Artificial Intelligence Models and Top Large Language Models

Despite significant advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), detecting and mitigating bias remains a critical challenge, particularly on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), to address the prevalent cyberbullying on these platforms. This research investigates the effectiveness of leading LLMs in generating synthetic biased and cyberbullying data and evaluates the proficiency of transformer AI models in detecting bias and cyberbullying within both authentic and synthetic contexts. The study involves semantic analysis and feature engineering on a dataset of over 48,000 sentences related to cyberbullying collected from Twitter (before it became X). Utilizing state-of-the-art LLMs and AI tools such as ChatGPT-4, Pi AI, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini-1.5, synthetic biased, cyberbullying, and neutral data were generated to deepen the understanding of bias in human-generated data. AI models including DeBERTa, Longformer, BigBird, HateBERT, MobileBERT, DistilBERT, BERT, RoBERTa, ELECTRA, and XLNet were initially trained to classify Twitter cyberbullying data and subsequently fine-tuned, optimized, and experimentally quantized. This study focuses on intersectional cyberbullying and multilabel classification to detect both bias and cyberbullying. Additionally, it proposes two prototype applications: one that detects cyberbullying using an intersectional approach and the innovative CyberBulliedBiasedBot that combines the generation and detection of biased and cyberbullying content.