Papers with Fostering Overdependence
Being Kind Isn’t Always Being Safe: Diagnosing Affective Hallucination in LLMs (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly engaged in emotionally vulnerable conversations that extend beyond information seeking to moments of personal distress. |
| Approach: | They propose AHaBench, a benchmark of 500 mental-health-related prompts with expert-informed reference responses, evaluated along three dimensions: Emotional Enmeshment, Illusion of Presence, and Fostering Overdependence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on 500 mental-health-related prompts with expert-informed reference responses and a 5K-instance preference dataset enabling direct preference optimization (DPO) for alignment with emotionally responsible behavior. |