Living with AI Companions: Sustained AI Companionship Predicts Lower Well-Being Through Lower Human Interaction
AI chatbots are increasingly used for companionship, emotional support, and personal self-disclosure; however, how social engagement with these systems unfolds over time and shapes users'well-being remains unclear. To address this, we conducted a two-wave longitudinal study of CharacterAI users, surveying 1,182 partici...
Yu-Tong Zhang, Dora Zhao, Yi-Xin Wang et al.
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