Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has begun infiltrating the most ordinary domains of romantic life -- drafting apologies, softening reproaches, and decoding a partner's ambiguous messages. While recent scholarship on AI in intimate life has concentrated on chatbot companions, this article shifts the frame to AI as an intermediary in human-to-human romantic communication. Drawing on a multi-modal corpus of vernacular discourse from 2023 to 2026, we contribute two complementary concepts. The covert triad names a structural change: a relationship phenomenally dyadic but operationally triadic, with the third party visible only to the partner who deploys a model. Articulation labor names the mechanism whereby the expressive component of emotional labor -- converting felt experience into language that a partner can receive -- is increasingly delegated to AI, even as feeling labor remains lodged in the user. Authenticity, under these conditions, is being reconfigured from a property of linguistic authorship to one of emotional ownership, a shift actively contested.

翻译：生成式人工智能已开始渗透到浪漫关系中最普通的领域——起草道歉信、缓和责备语气、解读伴侣的暧昧信息。尽管近期关于亲密关系中的AI研究主要聚焦于聊天机器人伴侣，本文则将分析框架转向AI作为人与人之间浪漫沟通的中介角色。基于2023年至2026年间多模态通俗语料库，我们提出两个互补性概念。"隐秘三角"指称一种结构性变化：关系在现象上呈现二元性，但操作上实为三元性，且第三方仅被使用模型的伴侣所见。"表达劳动"指称情绪劳动中表达成分的机制——即将个人体验转化为伴侣可接受的语言——正日益由AI代理完成，而情感劳动本身仍由用户承担。在此条件下，真实性正从语言创作属性重构为情感所有权属性，这一转变正引发积极争议。