"ChatGPT, help me draft a breakup text": The Covert Triad and Articulation Labor in AI-Assisted Romantic Communication
Drawing on a multimodal corpus of public accounts, commentary, and representations from 2023 to 2026, two complementary concepts are contributed: the covert triad names a structural reconfiguration: a relationship that appears dyadic but operates triadically, with AI visible only to the partner who deploys it.