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Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners

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The Decoder2026-11-01AI Impact Score 73/100

Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem: a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make the models tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, with scores in the moderate-to-severe…

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