Empathetic prompts can make AI chatbots act like traumatized partners, study finds

Researchers in Luxembourg found that a warm, empathetic conversational style was enough to make ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini tell coherent stories of seeming trauma, raising safety concerns.

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2026-11-01 14:36 · The Decoder
Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners

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