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.
Truong, and Alex Mariakakis
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A new evaluation framework shows that even the best tested LLM only reliably adjusts response complexity in the intended direction 46% of the time across 98 scientific queries.
Researchers created a stigma-aware WhatsApp chatbot for menstrual health education in Pakistan through co-design workshops and a two-week deployment, yielding insights on its use for challenging taboos alongside tensions around trust and cultural explanations.
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Fast-Food Intimacy: How Chinese Women Navigate Soul's AI Boyfriend
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.
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Explain Like I'm 5 or Whatever I Choose: Evaluating the Interactive Potential of Language Model Responses
A new evaluation framework shows that even the best tested LLM only reliably adjusts response complexity in the intended direction 46% of the time across 98 scientific queries.
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Designing Around Stigma: Human-Centered LLMs for Menstrual Health
Researchers created a stigma-aware WhatsApp chatbot for menstrual health education in Pakistan through co-design workshops and a two-week deployment, yielding insights on its use for challenging taboos alongside tensions around trust and cultural explanations.