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Comparing Human Role-Players and LLM-Simulated Clients in Online Counselling Training: An Analysis of Counselling Patterns
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers compared LLM-simulated counseling clients to human role-players in training, analyzing conversation patterns at sentence level.
- Why it matters
- Matters for counseling educators designing training programs and considering AI-based practice alternatives to human role-play partners.
- Watch out
- Study used one specific model and quantization method; findings about pattern differences remain preliminary and may not generalize broadly.
- llm
- language model
- quantiz
- mistral
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