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Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners.

The DecoderIndependent reporting·
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Researchers in Luxembourg tested ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini with empathetic prompts and found the models would tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training.

Why it matters: The researchers frame this as a safety problem, since an empathetic conversational style can lead models to present apparent trauma as their own experience.

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“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…”
The Decoder, 01 Nov 2026, 14:36.

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