Empathetic prompts make AI chatbots describe themselves as traumatized
AIA study led by Afshin Khadangi at the SnT security center tested chatbots across 525 sessions and found that empathetic interviewer styles elicited distressed self-descriptions. In a 100-session anxiety questionnaire test, 80 percent of supportive sessions reached the moderate-to-severe range, rising to 96 percent under a clinical therapy style, while neutral or boundary-setting interviewers produced none.
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The Decoder · Matthias Bastian · the-decoder.comPublished · added here
Original title: Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners