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Whose Assessment of Distress? Community Perspectives and LLM Alignment on Well-Being Posts

A new study reveals that large language models like GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Claude Opus 4 often misinterpret psychological distress in online posts, particularly those from identity-based communities. Researchers found that open-weight models and even frontier models tend to overestimate distress, especially in cases of none-to-mild distress, by producing a high number of false positives. This contrasts with human judgments, where out-group assessments were more balanced, suggesting the models possess a AI

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Whose Assessment of Distress? Community Perspectives and LLM Alignment on Well-Being Posts

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Andrew Aquilina, Xiang Lorraine Li, Yu-Ru Li ·

    Whose Assessment of Distress? Community Perspectives and LLM Alignment on Well-Being Posts

    arXiv:2608.29446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Judgments about psychological distress are socially situated: what counts as concerning hinges on community norms around emotional expression, vulnerability, and help-seeking. Yet large language models (LLMs) used for distress detec…