Is It Still You? Attributing Authorship and Authenticity in AI-Assisted Romantic Communication (CCF A)
Published in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2026, 2026
This paper investigates how AI-assisted romantic communication affects perceived authorship and authenticity. Through two studies (N=152 instrumented authoring + N=704 mixed-effects experiment), we demonstrate a competence-integrity dissociation in AI-assisted romantic messages.
Keywords: Computer Mediated Communication, Emotion/Affective Computing, Intimate Relationships, AI-Assisted Writing, Authorship Attribution
Subcommittee: Interaction Beyond the Individual; Understanding People: Statistical & Quantitative Methods
Recommended citation: Fan, G., Liu, D., et al. (2026). Is It Still You? Attributing Authorship and Authenticity in AI-Assisted Romantic Communication. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). ACM.