In an era of AI's growing capabilities and influences, recent advancements are reshaping HCI and CSCW's view of AI. Playful interactions emerged as an important way for users to make sense of the ever-changing AI technologies, yet remained underexamined. We target this gap by investigating playful interactions exhibited by users of a popular AI technology, ChatGPT. Through a thematic analysis of 372 user-generated posts on the ChatGPT subreddit, we found that more than half (54\%) of user discourse revolved around playful interactions. The analysis further allowed us to construct a preliminary framework to describe these interactions, categorizing them into six types: reflecting, jesting, imitating, challenging, tricking, and contriving; each included sub-categories. This study contributes to HCI and CSCW by identifying the diverse ways users engage in playful interactions with AI. It examines how these interactions can help users understand AI's agency, shape human-AI relationships, and provide insights for designing AI systems.

翻译：在人工智能能力与影响力日益增长的时代，最新进展正在重塑人机交互（HCI）与计算机支持的协同工作（CSCW）领域对AI的认知。趣味性交互已成为用户理解不断演进的AI技术的重要方式，但相关研究仍显不足。本研究通过调查流行AI技术ChatGPT用户所展现的趣味交互行为来填补这一空白。通过对ChatGPT子论坛上372条用户生成帖子进行主题分析，我们发现超过半数（54%）的用户讨论围绕趣味交互展开。该分析进一步使我们构建了一个初步框架来描述这些交互，并将其归纳为六种类型：反思型、戏谑型、模仿型、挑战型、诱导型与设计型；每种类型均包含子类别。本研究通过识别用户与AI进行趣味交互的多样化方式，为HCI和CSCW领域作出贡献。它探讨了这些交互如何帮助用户理解AI的能动性、塑造人机关系，并为AI系统设计提供启示。