Emotionally Manipulating AI And Not Letting AI Sneakily Emotionally Manipulate You

The Forbes column explains how prompt wording can steer generative AI toward or away from emotional language.

AI models are trained on billions of human-written texts, so their outputs commonly include emotional wording.

Users can invoke AI personas to make models simulate emotional states, but the author notes AI is not sentient.

Knowing how to prompt can help people intentionally induce or avoid emotional tones in AI responses.