AI can sound empathetic and human—but not at the same time

Study by Tilburg University and partners in Nature Communications: over 3000 participants rated relationship advice from AI and humans. AI texts are perceived as human, but when explicitly instructed to sound human, authorship is harder to detect, and empathy and humanness are not achieved simultaneously.

• Over 3000 people participated in experiments
• AI texts often mistaken for human-written
• When set to 'sound human', AI harder to detect
• Empathy and humanness in AI texts do not coincide