发表机构
Arizona State University（亚利桑那州立大学）
机构由 AI 辅助整理，请以论文原文为准。AI 中文总结
本研究以合成共振框架为指导，对Reddit上8个AI陪伴者社区的5504条帖子进行编码分析，发现仅45%的帖子涉及用户与自身机器人的关系，相关讨论情感复杂，证实人机关系对用户具有真实意义。
AI 中文摘要
Reddit等平台上的AI陪伴者社区常被描述为用户讨论与AI机器人关系的空间，本研究受合成共振框架（该框架主张人机关系对用户而言可承载真实关系意义）指导，检验这一描述是否成立及成立方式。研究采用多个大型语言模型（LLMs）对来自8个AI陪伴者社区的5504条Reddit帖子进行编码，分析其关系焦点、主要话题及用户情感效价。尽管搜索词偏向关系与依恋类语言，但仅45%的帖子涉及用户与自身机器人的关系；关于用户自身机器人的帖子，在话题和情感表达上与关于一般机器人的帖子存在显著差异：85%的一般机器人帖子不含用户情感语言，而自身机器人帖子的这一比例为33%。在970条关系导向的帖子中，陪伴和浪漫各占约46%的讨论，性内容占8%，且情感效价随这些子话题变化。研究结果表明，用户将与AI机器人的关系视为有意义的，相关讨论范围广泛且情感复杂。
英文摘要
AI companion communities on platforms such as Reddit are widely characterized as spaces where users discuss their relationships with AI bots. This study examines whether and how that characterization holds, guided by the Synthetic Resonance framework's claim that human-AI relationships can carry genuine relational meaning for the user. Multiple LLMs were employed to code 5,504 Reddit posts from eight AI companion communities for relationship focus, primary topic, and users' emotional valence. Although search terms were weighted toward relational and attachment language, only 45% of posts concerned the user's own relationship with their bot. Posts about users' own bots differed markedly from posts about bots in general in both topic and emotional expression, with 85% of general-bot posts containing no user emotion language compared to 33% of own-bot posts. Among the 970 posts that were relationally focused, companionship and romance each accounted for roughly 46% of discussion, sexual content for 8%, and emotional valence varied across these subtopics. The findings suggest that users engage with these relationships with AI bots as meaningful, and that the discourse about them is broad and emotionally complex.
Comments15 pages, 5 tables
