Remove boxes from wordpress comments

I hope someone can help me with this or point me in the right direction. I’m currently pulling my hair out.

On the wordpress comments form. I have these boxes:

Screenshot

I have looked at the wordpress functions page: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_form which mentioned this ‘comment_notes_before’ => ” – Even if I made the value blank it still adds those bloody boxes!!!!

Can someone please tell me how to remove them?

p.s I am using the standard comment_form($comments_args); implementation not a custom form.

Thanks

EDIT: Full Code

<?php
  $fields = array(

   // author field
   'author' => '',

   //email field
   'email' => '',

   'comment_notes_before' => '',
   'comment_notes_after' => ''

 );
?>

        <?php

        $comments_args = array(
  'id_form'           => 'commentform',
  'class_form'      => 'comment-form',
  'id_submit'         => 'submit',
  'class_submit'      => 'submit',
  'name_submit'       => 'submit',
  'title_reply'       => __( 'Leave a Reply' ),
  'title_reply_to'    => __( 'Leave a Reply to %s' ),
  'cancel_reply_link' => __( 'Cancel Reply' ),
  'label_submit'      => __( 'Post Comment' ),
  'format'            => 'xhtml',

  'comment_field' =>  '<p class="comment-form-comment"><label for="comment">Comment</label><textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="8" aria-required="true">' .
    '</textarea></p>',

  'must_log_in' => '<p class="must-log-in">' .
    sprintf(
      __( 'You must be <a href="%s">logged in</a> to post a comment.' ),
      wp_login_url( apply_filters( 'the_permalink', get_permalink() ) )
    ) . '</p>',

  'logged_in_as' => '<p class="logged-in-as">' .
    sprintf(
    __( 'Logged in as <a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>. <a href="%3$s" title="Log out of this account">Log out?</a>' ),
      admin_url( 'profile.php' ),
      $user_identity,
      wp_logout_url( apply_filters( 'the_permalink', get_permalink( ) ) )
    ) . '</p>',

  'fields' => apply_filters( 'comment_form_default_fields', $fields ),
);
?>