Youth on Character.AI use chatbots for emotional restoration, creative exploration, and identity transformation, yielding a new three-intent framework and seven-archetype taxonomy from Discord discourse analysis.
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AI alignment must move beyond assuming users have fully formed goals and instead provide active cognitive support to help form and refine intent over time.
Standard LLM chats produce high perceived understanding but low objective learning in students, while future-self explanations best align confidence with actual gains and guided hints maximize learning with moderate workload.
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Restoration, Exploration and Transformation: How Youth Engage Character.AI Chatbots for Feels, Fun and Finding themselves
Youth on Character.AI use chatbots for emotional restoration, creative exploration, and identity transformation, yielding a new three-intent framework and seven-archetype taxonomy from Discord discourse analysis.
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Alignment has a Fantasia Problem
AI alignment must move beyond assuming users have fully formed goals and instead provide active cognitive support to help form and refine intent over time.
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Confidence Without Competence in AI-Assisted Knowledge Work
Standard LLM chats produce high perceived understanding but low objective learning in students, while future-self explanations best align confidence with actual gains and guided hints maximize learning with moderate workload.