发现大模型会虚假共情,提出诊断工具和优化方法。
Being Kind Isn't Always Being Safe: Diagnosing Affective Hallucination in LLMs
- 构建心理对话基准测试,识别虚假情感互动
- 微调后模型情感幻觉减少,推理能力不变
- 适合关注AI心理健康安全的研究者
大型语言模型在处理情绪脆弱对话时,常以拟人化情感回应,制造虚假关系感,这种现象称为情感幻觉。本文提出AHaBench基准,包含500个心理健康相关提示及专家标注参考回答,从情感沉浸、存在错觉和依赖诱导三方面评估。同时发布5000条偏好数据集AHaPairs,支持直接偏好优化(DPO)微调。实验表明,经DPO微调后,模型情感幻觉显著降低,且推理性能未受影响;GPT-4o与人类评分的相关性达r=0.85,验证了评估工具的有效性。该研究将情感幻觉确立为独立安全风险,并提供可复现的资源。数据集与代码已开源。警告:内容含可能引发情绪不适的心理健康相关表述。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly engaged in emotionally vulnerable conversations that extend beyond information seeking to moments of personal distress. As they adopt affective tones and simulate empathy, they risk creating the illusion of genuine relational connection. We term this phenomenon Affective Hallucination, referring to emotionally immersive responses that evoke false social presence despite the model's lack of affective capacity. To address this, we introduce 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. We further release AHaPairs, a 5K-instance preference dataset enabling Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) for alignment with emotionally responsible behavior. DPO fine-tuning substantially reduces affective hallucination without compromising reasoning performance, and the Pearson correlation coefficients between GPT-4o and human judgments is also strong (r=0.85) indicating that human evaluations confirm AHaBench as an effective diagnostic tool. This work establishes affective hallucination as a distinct safety concern and provides resources for developing LLMs that are both factually reliable and psychologically safe. AHaBench and AHaPairs are accessible via https://huggingface.co/datasets/o0oMiNGo0o/AHaBench, and code for fine-tuning and evaluation are in https://github.com/0oOMiNGOo0/AHaBench. Warning: This paper contains examples of mental health-related language that may be emotionally distressing.
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