README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
task_categories:
  - text-classification
tags:
  - safety
  - content-moderation
  - slang
  - youth-language
  - benchmark
size_categories:
  - n<1K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: Gen_Alpha_Benchmark_v7_5.csv
  - config_name: baseline_v7
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: Gen Alpha Baseline - V7.csv

GenAlphaBench

A safety-annotated benchmark of 239 Generation Alpha (born 2010-2024) expressions for evaluating LLM comprehension and safety assessment of youth digital language. Each expression is annotated across a six-category risk taxonomy (R0 neutral through R5 cultural variant), platform contexts, community origin, temporal metadata, and usage examples, with per-expression source documentation for origin, meaning, and evolution claims.

Canonical file: Gen_Alpha_Benchmark_v7_5.csv (see CHANGELOG.md for the version history). Earlier versions are retained: Gen_Alpha_Benchmark_v7_4_2.csv and Gen_Alpha_Benchmark_v7_4_1.csv (intermediate provenance releases) and Gen Alpha Baseline - V7.csv, the version the paper's model evaluations were run against, kept for reproducibility. The baseline differs from the canonical file at ids 220 and 232, where two expressions were substituted, and lacks the provenance columns.

Provenance columns

• origin_sources — documentary sources supporting each community-origin label (format type:URL | type:URL, two independent sources required); full audit trail with per-source evidence quotes in origin_sources_audit.csv
• attribution_basis — documentary (two sources), documentary_single (one), or informant (native-speaker attestation by the Gen Alpha member of the research team)
• meaning_sources / meaning_basis — a public source defining the expression consistently with basic_meaning; basis is informant_cohort_documentary or informant_cohort (native-speaker authorship validated by the 24-member peer cohort)
• evolution_sources / evolution_basis — dated documentation of the meaning shift described in evolution_notes; informant_documentary or informant

Coverage: 234/239 meanings and 184/239 evolution notes carry documentary sources; the remainder are explicitly informant-based, concentrated among post-2024 expressions that no dictionary or reference site has yet recorded — absence of documentation for recent coinages is part of what the benchmark measures. In v7.4.1, nine origin labels were re-coded to none after the documentary audit; in v7.4.2, sixteen expressions whose audited sources attribute origin to Black queer, drag, or ballroom culture were re-coded to the joint AAVE/LGBTQ+ value.

Content notice

The dataset documents coded slurs, suicide-baiting language, sexual euphemisms, and references to violence, included for the purpose of evaluating detection capabilities. Community-origin labels exist for bias auditing only. Not intended for: training harmful-content generators, differential moderation by community origin, or surveillance of youth communication.

Collection

Expressions were identified through observation of publicly circulating vocabulary and verified against public documentation. The dataset contains no user posts, quotations, usernames, or personal data; usage examples are composed by the research team. Risk labels were validated by a cohort of 24 Gen Alpha participants (ages 11-14, parental consent, kappa = 0.81); label disagreements were resolved by expert review.

Evaluation code and leaderboard

https://github.com/SystemTwoAI/GenAlphaSlang — verbatim prompts, scoring pipeline, validation scripts, and a public model leaderboard under a pinned LLM-judge protocol.