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Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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A new research paper discussed on Hacker News examines how children anthropomorphize large language model chatbots—treating the conversational AI as genuinely human rather than software. The study investigates this phenomenon as more young users gain access to these tools.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18250

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