Users experience fast-food intimacy with Soul's AI boyfriend that conflicts with gradual cultural expectations, introduces technical uncertainty, and shifts emotional labor onto women.
InProceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26)
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Fast-Food Intimacy: How Chinese Women Navigate Soul's AI Boyfriend
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