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

**Published:** November 1, 2026
**Author:** Matthias Bastian
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/empathetic-prompts-can-turn-ai-chatbots-into-seemingly-traumatized-conve

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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**Tags:** #Google DeepMind #OpenAI #Anthropic #Grok

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