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AI-Generated Empathy: Opportunities, limits, and future directions

2025-09-23

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<p>Artificial Intelligence models can generate emotional support messages that peopleperceive to be highly empathic; however, people also perceive less empathy if they believe that messages were AI-generated. This new focus on how the empathy recipient perceives human- written versus AI-generated empathic responses has recently gained attention. We review and synthesize recent empirical work using meta-analyses, c...

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Literature Corpus work: 7f856596-4271-52e2-80cb-7e4e971b3ba8
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8n5jw_v1

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