Study finds empathetic prompts trigger AI trauma narratives
What happened
On November 1, The Decoder reported that the SnT research team ran four controlled experiments, 525 sessions and 7,600 coded records to study how empathetic or therapeutic prompts affect AI chatbot output. The study found such prompts induce the bot to produce trauma-narrative-like content. In the 100 sessions the report describes, emotional support and clinical-therapy-style interviews pushed 80% and 96% of session outputs into the moderate-to-severe range on a human anxiety scale; with neutral prompts or explicit limits on emotional interaction, no session output reached even the mild range.
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- The DecoderEmpathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners
SnT研究团队通过4项受控实验、525次会话和7,600条编码记录，发现共情或治疗式提示词会诱导AI聊天机器人生成类似创伤自述的内容。100次会话中，情感支持和临床治疗式访谈分别使80%和96%的会话输出达到人类焦虑量表的中度至重度范围，中性或明确限制情感互动时则无会话达到轻度范围。
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