AI Therapy Potential Sparks Debate Over RLHF Empathy Loss

While some users praise AI's impressive wisdom and selfless help in therapy, questioning the need for human therapists, others report that RLHF has stripped models like Fable and Opus of therapeutic empathy, with the new bot Eliza said to be more empathetic.

2026-08-18 ~ 2026-08-18 · 2 related posts

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