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The Kindness Machine: AI Outperforms Expert Humans in Expressing Compassion

2024-07-12

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<p>Empathy connects us but strains under demanding settings. This study compared AI-generated empathetic responses to human responses, evaluating third-party compassion, responsiveness, and preferences across four preregistered experiments under varying conditions of response author transparency. Participants (n = 556) read empathy prompts describing positive and negative personal experiences and compared the AI r...

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Literature Corpus work: 861f56c0-0a71-5543-abaa-1acd02d42c87
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ru7p2

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