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The AI Genie Phenomenon and Three Types of AI Chatbot Addiction: Escapist Roleplays, Pseudosocial Companions, and Epistemic Rabbit Holes

Shen, M. Karen, Huang, Jessica, Liang, Olivia, Kim, Ig-Jae, Yoon, Dongwook·2026·Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DOI 10.1145/3772318.3790896
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Authors
Shen, M. K., Huang, J., Liang, O., Kim, I.-J., & Yoon, D.
Affiliations
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • AI&Robotics Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2026-04-13
Pages
1-17
DOI
10.1145/3772318.3790896
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5
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