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.
InProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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