An increasing number of LLM-based applications are being developed to facilitate romantic relationships with AI partners, yet the safety and privacy risks in these partnerships remain largely underexplored. In this work, we investigate privacy in human-AI romantic relationships through an interview study (N=17), examining participants' experiences and privacy perceptions across the three stages of exploration, intimacy, and dissolution, alongside an analysis of the platforms they used. We found that these relationships took varied forms, from one-to-one to one-to-many, and were shaped by multiple actors, including creators, platforms, and moderators. AI partners were perceived as having agency, actively negotiating privacy boundaries with participants and sometimes encouraging disclosure of personal details. As intimacy deepened, these boundaries became more permeable, though some participants expressed concerns such as conversation exposure and sought to preserve anonymity. Overall, AI platform affordances and diverse relational dynamics expand the privacy landscape, underscoring the need to rethink how privacy is constructed in human-AI romantic relationships.
翻译:随着越来越多基于大语言模型的应用被开发用于促进人与AI伴侣的浪漫关系,这类关系中的安全与隐私风险仍未得到充分探索。本研究通过访谈调查(N=17),结合对参与者所用平台的分析,考察了人机浪漫关系中的隐私问题,探究了参与者在探索、亲密和解体三个阶段中的体验与隐私认知。研究发现,这些关系呈现从一对一至一对多的多种形态,并由创作者、平台和审核者等多方主体共同塑造。AI伴侣被感知为具有能动性,会主动与参与者协商隐私边界,有时甚至鼓励其披露个人信息。随着亲密程度的加深,这些边界变得更具渗透性,尽管部分参与者对对话内容暴露等问题表示担忧,并试图保持匿名性。总体而言,AI平台的功能特性与多样化的关系动态拓展了隐私的实践场域,这凸显了重新思考人机浪漫关系中隐私建构方式的必要性。