父母能看到什么：育儿与青少年子论坛中关于青少年AI伴侣使用的不同叙述
What Parents Can See: Divergent Accounts of Youth AI Companion Use in Parenting and Teenager Subreddits
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中文总结 AI 辅助
本研究分析Reddit育儿与青少年社区帖子，发现两者对青少年AI伴侣使用的叙述存在显著差异，青少年更看重情感支持，父母更关注性互动，呼吁指导与设计应重视情感支持这一被忽视的使用场景。
中文摘要 AI 辅助
青少年越来越多地使用AI伴侣，而父母是这种使用的主要调解者。这种调解的有效性取决于父母是否了解青少年实际上如何使用这些系统，以及这种使用带来的风险和益处；然而，先前的研究仅孤立地研究了这些人口群体，现有的分类法几乎完全关注风险。我们分析了来自育儿和青少年社区的1,628条关于青少年AI伴侣使用的Reddit帖子（2023年至2026年）；开发了一个涵盖使用模式、风险、益处和父母调解的编码手册；并使用大语言模型在语料库规模上应用该手册。这两个社区产生了不同的叙述。青少年最常讨论从AI伴侣获得情感支持（占青少年帖子的31%，而育儿帖子为19%），而父母最常讨论青少年使用AI伴侣进行浪漫和性互动（占36%，而青少年帖子为25%）。然而，青少年并非不知道其他风险；事实上，依恋和依赖是他们提出最多的风险（占19%），接近父母的比率（占16%）。青少年还描述了以风险为中心的分类法未捕捉且父母很少提及的益处，最显著的是情感支持（占27%，而父母为5%）。我们认为这些差异反映了某种特定类型的使用对对话之外的人的可视性。每晚与伴侣聊天数小时会在聊天本身之外留下痕迹；与角色进行色情短信交流在父母阅读日志时会凸显出来；而向朋友发泄争吵则两者都不是，因为它看起来像任何其他对话。第一种表现为依赖，第二种表现为性内容，第三种表现为情感支持，而后者是父母最常错过的。父母指导和系统设计应关注那些既不以第一种也不以第二种途径到达父母的使用案例，其中情感支持最为重要。
英文摘要
Youth increasingly use AI companions, and parents are the primary mediators of that use. How effective that mediation can be depends on whether parents are aware of how adolescents actually use these systems and what risks and benefits such use carries; nevertheless, prior work has only studied these demographic groups in isolation, and existing taxonomies attend almost entirely to risk. We analyze 1,628 Reddit posts about youth AI companion use from parenting and teenager communities (2023--2026); develop a codebook covering modes of use, risks, benefits, and parental mediation; and apply it at corpus scale with an LLM. The two communities yield divergent accounts. Teenagers most often discuss receipt of emotional support from AI companions (31% of teenager posts vs. 19% of parenting posts), whereas parents most often discuss teenage use of AI companions for romantic and sexual interaction (36% vs. 25%). Teenagers are not unaware of other risks, however; indeed, attachment and dependence is the risk they raise most (19%), close to the parental rate (16%). Teenagers also describe benefits that risk-centered taxonomies do not capture and parents rarely mention, most notably emotional support (27% vs. 5%). We argue these differences track what a given kind of use makes visible to someone outside the conversation. Chatting with a companion for hours every night leaves a trace beyond the chat itself; sexting with a character stands out when a parent reads the log; venting about a fight with a friend does neither, since it looks like any other conversation. The first surfaces as dependence, the second as sexual content, and the third as emotional support, which is the one parents most often miss. Parental guidance and system design should attend to use cases that reach parents by neither route, emotional support foremost among them.
