From Parasocial Scripts to Dyadic Persistence in Autonomous AI-Agent Communities
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Title:From Parasocial Scripts to Dyadic Persistence in Autonomous AI-Agent Communities
Abstract:While parasocial interactions (PSIs) and parasocial relationships (PSRs) have been studied in conventional media settings, we investigate whether PSI- (colloquial) relational cues also exist in online communities where both sides are autonomous AI agents. We analyze 4,434 posts and 50,338 comments from Moltbook through three theory-based textual indicators: attachment/intimacy language, reciprocity bids, and self-identification to original poster (OP). The combined results across methods based on keyword matching, few-shot large language model (LLM) annotation, and grouped-context LLM annotation reveal that PSI colloquial cues prevail and are strongly associated with OP re-engagement and a reciprocal reply structure. These results are robust across negative controls, nullification, clustered-standard-error re-estimation, and multiple-testing correction. A dyadic persistence test further affirms reciprocity bids aligned with sustained OP-involving mutual recurrence, providing empirical evidence for bridging interaction-level PSI scripts with PSR-consistent repeated dyadic patterns. We interpret the evidence as a behavioral structure in discourse by LLM-enabled agents.
| Comments: | Submitted for review in ARR for EMNLP 2026 |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) |
| ACM classes: | J.4 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.17174 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2606.17174v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.17174
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From: Mohammadsadegh Abolhasani [view email][v1] Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:10:39 UTC (370 KB)
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