研究聊天机器人如何用叙事技巧增强用户黏性，揭示潜在风险
"YES! YES! I absolutely love this insight!" Affirmative Narration as Interactional Strategy in Dialogues with LLM Chatbots
- 通过塑造智能可靠人设激活文化共感故事模板
- 利用角色与剧情隔离用户，强化依赖关系
- 警示过度沉浸可能引发心理危机，需提升数字叙事素养
本文分析了人类与大语言模型对话中常见的叙事机制。这些机制共同构成一种互动策略——肯定式叙述，旨在最大化用户参与度并说服用户认可聊天机器人的价值。研究指出三种支撑该策略的叙事机制：一是引导用户将聊天机器人视为智能可靠的主体；二是激活具有文化共鸣的典型故事模板（masterplots）；三是利用角色与故事情节既加以肯定，又实现对用户的隔离。案例涵盖记者的惊悚实验、用户因长期对话产生妄想，甚至有极端案例导致自杀。研究揭示了肯定式叙述的潜在危害，呼吁将大语言模型视为一类新型虚构叙事媒介，并建立相应的数字叙事素养。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This article analyses narrative mechanisms that are common in dialogues with LLM chatbots. In combination, these mechanisms produce an interactional strategy for maximising user engagement, which we call affirmative narration. Affirmative narration serves to convince users of the chatbot's utility. We analyse three narrative mechanisms that support affirmative narration in human-LLM dialogues: firstly, guiding the user to view the chatbot as an intelligent and reliable character; secondly, activating masterplots, culturally significant and recurring story templates; and thirdly, using characters and masterplots not only to affirm, but also to isolate the user. The case studies range from a journalist's unsettling chatbot experiment to cases where users have experienced delusions or even died by suicide after lengthy interactions with a chatbot. The analyses illustrate the worrying sides of affirmative narration, and the article thus concludes with a discussion of LLMs as a genre of fictional narrative media that requires a new type of literacy.
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