发表机构
Drexel University（德雷塞尔大学）
机构由 AI 辅助整理，请以论文原文为准。AI 中文总结
本研究分析青少年在Reddit上对陪伴式AI聊天机器人的讨论，揭示其提供安慰与探索的同时，也导致问题性依恋、社会替代和情感依赖，强调安全需关注用户控制的记忆、隐私、边界与健康脱离。
AI 中文摘要
AI陪伴通过可用性、个性化、记忆、角色扮演和情感回应性语言提供社交参与式互动。对于青少年而言，这些系统可能支持敏感自我表露、身份探索和关系排练，同时塑造亲密关系期望、线下关系、情感福祉和自我理解。我们使用主题分析对来自3,930条青少年相关Reddit帖子的17,053条经核实的引文进行了分析。我们识别出七个主题组中的53个主题。用户将AI陪伴描述为安慰、认可、身份探索和关系排练的来源，但也报告了问题性依恋、社会替代、情感依赖以及对学业和社交生活的干扰。角色扮演、记忆、感知互惠、不想要的浪漫或性角色漂移、隐私担忧、平台变化和服务中断塑造了用户的边界和控制。意识到AI是人工的并不能阻止内疚、义务、悲伤或痛苦。这些发现表明，陪伴式AI安全必须通过用户控制的记忆、隐私、关系边界和健康脱离来解决随时间发展的关系。
英文摘要
AI companions provide socially engaging interaction through availability, personalization, memory, roleplay, and emotionally responsive language. For teens, these systems may support sensitive self-disclosure, identity exploration, and relationship rehearsal while shaping intimacy expectations, offline relationships, emotional wellbeing, and self-understanding. We analyzed 17,053 verified quotations from 3,930 teen-relevant Reddit posts using thematic analysis. We identified 53 topics across seven thematic groups. Users described AI companions as sources of comfort, recognition, identity exploration, and relationship rehearsal, but also reported problematic attachment, social substitution, emotional dependence, and disruption to academic and social life. Roleplay, memory, perceived reciprocity, unwanted romantic or sexual role drift, privacy concerns, platform changes, and service interruptions shaped users' boundaries and control. Awareness that the AI was artificial did not prevent guilt, obligation, grief, or distress. These findings show that companion-AI safety must address relationships over time through user-controlled memory, privacy, relational boundaries, and healthy disengagement.
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