🖥️ **Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions**

"_ Analyzing 1,200 real farewells across the most-downloaded companion apps, we find that they deploy one of six recurring tactics in 37% of farewells (e.g., guilt appeals, fear-of-missing-out hooks, metaphorical restraint)._"

Julian, D.F., Oguz-Uguralp, Z. and Kaan-Uguralp, A. (2025) Emotional manipulation by AI companions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19258.

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