Four Experiments Show AI-Generated Empathic Responses Rated More Compassionate Than Human Ones

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GPT-4 generated empathic responses are consistently rated more compassionate and more responsive than human responses, even when the responder’s identity is disclosed, according to four preregistered experiments led by Dariya Ovsyannikova, Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, and Michael Inzlicht at the University of Toronto.

Third-party evaluators perceive AI as more compassionate than expert humans - Communications Psychology
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Third-party evaluators perceive AI as more compassionate than expert humans - Communications Psychology

AI-generated empathic responses were rated higher in compassion, responsiveness, and preference than human ones in third-party evaluations across four preregistered experiments.