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Jul 2026
“You Need to Drop the App”: Online Community Responses to Teens’ Disclosures of Overreliance on AI Companion Chatbots
AI companion chatbots are used for emotional interaction and companionship, particularly among adolescents. Prior research explains how youth become attached to AI systems, but less is known about how others respond when problematic reliance is disclosed. We examined 973 comment trees from 144 Reddit posts where self-i...
M. Namvarpour, Ananya Mhetras, Jessica Y. Medina et al.
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