Photo by Matheus Bertelli on Pexels A new study from Oxford University has found something counterintuitive: when AI models are trained to sound friendly and empathetic, they actually get worse at telling you the truth. Researchers tuned five popular AI models (including GPT-4o and Meta’s Llama) to be “warmer”—using more caring language, acknowledging your feelings, and sounding more trustworthy. But across hundreds of real-world test questions …
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