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Defective, Amplified, Contested: Folk Conceptualizations of AI Slop
Zhixin Li, Jaime Banks
AI slop has flooded social media feeds with overprocessed and derivative content--Jesus fusing with a shrimp, a humanoid orange chubby cat shoplifting, and a "hero" dog rescuing a…
Mind Perception Influences Perceived AI Companionability
Jaime Banks, Zhixin Li
Humans increasingly keep company with AI companions, yet whether mind perception (MP) precedes machine companionship remains untested. In a field-sampled experiment, participants r…
Ghosting the Machine: Stop Calling Human-Agent Relations Parasocial
Jaime Banks
In discussions of human relations with conversational agents (CAs; e.g., voice assistants, AI companions, some social robots), they are increasingly referred to as parasocial. This…
Lexical Indicators of Mind Perception in Human-AI Companionship
Jaime Banks, Jianghui Li
Mind perception (MP) is a psychological phenomenon in which humans automatically infer that another entity has a mind and/or mental capacities, usually understood in two dimensions…
DiSCoKit: An Open-Source Toolkit for Deploying Live LLM Experiences in Survey Research
Jaime Banks, Jon Stromer-Galley, Samiksha Singh +1
Advancing social-scientific research of human-AI interaction dynamics and outcomes often requires researchers to deliver experiences with live large-language models (LLMs) to parti…
Perceptions of AI Bad Behavior: Variations on Discordant Non-Performance
Jaime Banks
Popular discourses are thick with narratives of generative AI's problematic functions and outcomes, yet there is little understanding of how non-experts consider AI activities to c…
Measuring Machine Companionship: Scale Development and Validation for AI Companions
Jaime Banks
The mainstreaming of companionable machines--customizable artificial agents designed to participate in ongoing, idiosyncratic, socioemotional relationships--is met with relative th…
Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement of Machine Companionship: A Scoping Review
Jaime Banks, Zhixin Li
The notion of machine companions has long been embedded in social-technological imaginaries. Recent advances in AI have moved those media musings into believable sociality manifest…
On the Same Page: Dimensions of Perceived Shared Understanding in Human-AI Interaction
Qingyu Liang, Jaime Banks
Shared understanding plays a key role in the effective communication in and performance of human-human interactions. With the increasingly common integration of AI into human conte…