A Responsive Present, a Shared Past, a Social Other: Teens'Overreliance on Companion AI Chatbots
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, e...
M. Namvarpour, Tyler Chang, Afsaneh Razi
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