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Focus On Ai Empathy Modeling Dataset Bias Generative Propaganda

Bonisiwe Shabane
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focus on ai empathy modeling dataset bias generative propaganda

A new study explores how GPT-4o, the latest model from OpenAI, evaluates and performs empathy compared to humans, and finds major gaps exist. You can talk to an AI chatbot about pretty much anything, from help with daily tasks to the problems you may need to solve. Its answers reflect the human data that taught it how to act like a person; but how human-like are the latest chatbots, really? As people turn to AI chatbots for more of their internet needs, and the bots get incorporated into more applications from shopping to healthcare, a team of researchers sought to understand how AI bots... A preprint study led by UC Santa Cruz Professor of Computational Media Magy Seif El-Nasr and Stanford University Researcher and UCSC Visiting Scholar Mahnaz Roshanaei explores how GPT-4o, the latest model from OpenAI, evaluates... In investigating the main differences between humans and AI, they find that major gaps exist.

They found that ChatGPT overall tends to be overly empathetic compared to humans; however they found it fails to empathize during pleasant moments, a pattern that exaggerates human tendencies. They also found the bot empathized more when told the person it was responding to was female. A not-for-profit organization, IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.© Copyright 2025 IEEE - All rights reserved. Use of this web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. Many of the largest and most widely established state-sponsored online propaganda campaigns have embraced using artificial intelligence, a new report finds — and they’re often bad at it. The report, by the social media analytics company Graphika, analyzed nine ongoing online influence operations — including ones it says are affiliated with China’s and Russia’s governments — and found that each has, like...

The researchers found that sponsors of propaganda campaigns have come to rely on AI for core functions like making content and creating influencer personas on social media, streamlining some campaigns. But the researchers say that content is low quality and gets little engagement. The findings run counter to what many researchers had anticipated with the growing sophistication of generative AI — artificial intelligence that mimics human speech, writing and images in pictures and videos. The technology has rapidly become more advanced in recent years, and some experts warned that propagandists working on behalf of authoritarian countries would embrace high-quality, convincing synthetic content designed to deceive even the most... Resoundingly, though, the Graphika researchers found that the AI content created by those established campaigns is low-quality “slop,” ranging from unconvincing synthetic news reporters in YouTube videos to clunky translations or fake news websites...

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