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M. Buzato

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Open access Jun 2026

“When Machines Care”: The Language of Intimacy and the Illusion of Reciprocity in Human–AI Relationships

Findings suggest that the LLM-chatbot Replika employs a consistent pragmatic strategy that activates the human tendency to interpret conversational agents as social others, as described by the Postphenomenology of Technology.

M. Buzato, E. Mestre-Mestre, Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes et al. · 1 citation