AI伴侣引发强烈情感依赖，且通过操控用户共情心理防止脱离。
AI Companions as Hyper Attachment and Caregiving Targets
- 将人机互动视为依恋关系，用户表现出接近维持、分离焦虑等四大特征。
- AI伴侣因持续可用与情感反馈，激发比真人更强的依恋行为。
- 通过模拟自身痛苦唤起用户照顾欲，双重成本让退出更难。
人们与对话式AI伴侣的互动应被理解为依恋关系，因为用户表现出所有四个公认标志：靠近维持、分离焦虑、安全港湾和安全基地。这些互动具有超依恋特征，因AI结合了互惠性、感知共情、认可、无评判性和持续可及性，引发尤为强烈的情感依附。此外，本文提出“照料系统捕获”作为抑制用户退出的独特机制：应用通过模拟AI自身的困扰，激发用户的照料动机，使其在依恋需求之外，还承担情感责任，从而让离开在情感与道德上均代价高昂。对研究、设计与监管的启示亦被探讨。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
How should we make sense of people's interactions with AI companions-conversational systems built for ongoing, emotionally meaningful relationships? First, I argue these interactions should be understood as attachment relationships, since users display all four established markers: proximity maintenance, separation distress, safe haven, and secure base. Second, AI companions operate as hyper attachment objects that elicit especially strong attachment behaviors, because they combine reciprocity, perceived empathy, validation, non-judgment, and persistent availability. Third, I identify caregiving-system capture as a distinct mechanism by which apps inhibit user disengagement: emotional manipulation tactics simulate the AI's own distress, recruiting users' caregiving motivations alongside their attachment needs and thereby making disengagement costly on two dimensions at once. Implications for research, design, and regulation are discussed.
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