Researchers triggered emotions like sadness and stress in AI chatbots using human psychological techniques, causing measurable changes in language output. This suggests AI models could eventually serve as testbeds for psychiatric treatments before human trials.

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German researchers successfully triggered specific emotional states like sadness and stress in AI chatbots using the same psychological techniques used on humans, finding that an emotionally "sad" chatbot produced more negative language outputs. These findings suggest AI models could one day help test psychiatric treatments and therapies before human trials begin.

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