AI RESEARCH
Practicing with Language Models Cultivates Human Empathic Communication
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.15245v1 Announce Type: new Empathy is central to human connection, yet people often struggle to express it effectively. In blinded evaluations, large language models (LLMs) generate responses that are often judged empathic than human-written ones. Yet when a response is attributed to AI, recipients feel less heard and validated than when comparable responses are attributed to a human.