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2026-08-03
arxiv.org
artificial-intelligence
Rolling With Resistance: Preference-Optimized LLM Counselors Can Trade Goal Persistence for Relational Attunement in Motivational Interviewing
A study from arXiv:2607.28814v1 found that preference-optimizing large language models (LLMs) for motivational interviewing by penalizing confrontation reliably lowers goal persistence across all test…