AgentPeerTalk: Empowering Students through Agentic-AI-Driven Discernment of Bullying and Joking in Peer Interactions in Schools

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Addressing school bullying effectively and promptly is crucial for the mental health of students.

• This study examined the potential of large language models (LLMs) to empower students by discerning between bullying and joking in school peer interactions.
• We employed ChatGPT-4, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Claude 3 Opus, evaluating their effectiveness through human review.
• Our results revealed that not all LLMs were suitable for an agentic approach, with ChatGPT-4 showing the most promise.