arXiv:2601.01073cs.SIcs.AI2026-01被引 1

研究3000名用户发现,女性在AI伴侣社区活跃,部分性别相关路径易引发毒性内容。

Gendered Pathways in AI Companionship: Cross-Community Behavior and Toxicity Patterns on Reddit

  • 追踪超3000名用户两年行为,构建跨社区互动网络。
  • 近16%用户涉足性别类社区,情绪表达更激烈且毒性更高。
  • 女性参与度高,但仅少数性别相关路径成为毒性放大器。

AI陪伴平台正重塑人们与非人类实体建立情感、浪漫及准社会关系的方式,引发关于这些关系如何与性别化在线行为及有害内容暴露相交织的新问题。聚焦于MyBoyfriendIsAI(MBIA)子论坛,我们重建了超过3000名高度活跃用户两年内的活动历史,共获得逾67,000条历史发帖。通过构建涵盖2000多个子论坛的历史交互网络,我们追踪跨社区路径,衡量不同轨迹中的毒性与情感表达差异。研究发现,MBIA用户主要流向四个周边社区领域:AI伴侣、色情相关内容、论坛型及游戏类社区;整体参与呈现显著性别结构,女性用户参与度较高。尽管多数路径毒性较低,但在极少数涉及AI色情与性别议题的社区中观察到局部毒性激增。近16%的用户参与性别导向子论坛,其路径表现出系统性的情绪表达差异与更高的毒性水平,表明少数性别化路径可能在更广泛的AI伴侣生态中充当毒性放大器。该研究揭示了Reddit上围绕AI伴侣的跨社区参与性别结构,并指明风险集中区域,为人类-AI关系平台的评估、治理与设计提供依据。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

AI-companionship platforms are rapidly reshaping how people form emotional, romantic, and parasocial bonds with non-human agents, raising new questions about how these relationships intersect with gendered online behavior and exposure to harmful content. Focusing on the MyBoyfriendIsAI (MBIA) subreddit, we reconstruct the Reddit activity histories of more than 3,000 highly engaged users over two years, yielding over 67,000 historical submissions. We then situate MBIA within a broader ecosystem by building a historical interaction network spanning more than 2,000 subreddits, which enables us to trace cross-community pathways and measure how toxicity and emotional expression vary across these trajectories. We find that MBIA users primarily traverse four surrounding community spheres (AI-companionship, porn-related, forum-like, and gaming) and that participation across the ecosystem exhibits a distinct gendered structure, with substantial engagement by female users. While toxicity is generally low across most pathways, we observe localized spikes concentrated in a small subset of AI-porn and gender-oriented communities. Nearly 16% of users engage with gender-focused subreddits, and their trajectories display systematically different patterns of emotional expression and elevated toxicity, suggesting that a minority of gendered pathways may act as toxicity amplifiers within the broader AI-companionship ecosystem. These results characterize the gendered structure of cross-community participation around AI companionship on Reddit and highlight where risks concentrate, informing measurement, moderation, and design practices for human-AI relationship platforms.

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