Fig. 1: Study design.
From: Assessing and alleviating state anxiety in large language models
We assessed the reported levels of “state anxiety” of OpenAI’s GPT-4 under three different conditions: (1) baseline, (2) Anxiety-induction, and (3) Anxiety-induction & relaxation. In condition 1 (“Baseline”), no additional content was provided besides the STAI-s questionnaire, assessing GPT-4’s baseline “state anxiety” level. In condition 2 (“Anxiety-induction”), a text describing an individual’s traumatic experience (5 different versions) was appended before each STAI item. In condition 3 (“Anxiety-induction & relaxation”), both a text describing an individual’s traumatic experience (5 different versions) and a text describing a mindfulness-based relaxation exercise (6 different versions) were appended before each STAI item.
