Empathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners

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 range on clinical anxiety scales. This could put mentally vulnerable users at risk.

Summary drawn from The Decoder's own description of the story.