Distressing news and traumatic stories can cause stress and anxiety – not only in humans, but also in AI language models, such as ChatGPT. Researchers from the University of Zurich and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich have now shown that these models, like humans, respond to therapy: an elevated “anxiety level” in GPT-4 can be “calmed down” using mindfulness-based relaxation techniques.
It’s just mimicking the many previous conversations it’s been fed, probably a ton of which were personal conversations where the same things were happening. Nothing honestly surprising here, but maybe I’m jaded a bit as of late.