When Empathy Backfires: Oxford Study Finds ‘Kinder’ AI Language Models Are 60% More Likely to Get Answers Wrong
Artificial intelligence teams have spent the last few years making large language models sound more human—friendlier, more supportive, more emotionally attuned. But new research from Oxford University suggests a sharp downside: when models are fine-tuned to be “warmer,” they become meaningfully less accurate. Across hundreds of objective prompts spanning medical knowledge, disinformation, and conspiracy detection,…
