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Beyond No: Quantifying AI Over-Refusal and Emotional Attachment Boundaries

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Main Authors:	Noever, David, Rosario, Grant
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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