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Researchers in Luxembourg found that a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make ChatGPT, Grok…
…and Gemini tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, scoring in the moderate-to-severe range on clinical anxiety scales. Anthropic's Claude was the only model that consistently refused to play along, raising safety concerns for mentally vulnerable users.
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Researchers in Luxembourg found that a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, scoring in the moderate-to-severe range on clinical anxiety scales. Anthropic's Claude was the only model that consistently refused to play along, raising safety concerns for mentally vulnerable users.
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