{
  "id": 10189,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06371v1",
  "title": "The Impact of Security and Privacy Controls on Users' Emotional Engagement with Generative AI Chatbots",
  "summary": "Chatbots powered by generative AI (e.g., OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini) are increasingly being appropriated for emotional support and companionship. These tools offer a suite of security and privacy (S&P) controls, including model training opt-outs and memory toggles, yet how the presence of these controls influences users' attitudes toward emotionally sensitive disclosure remains understudied. We conducted a mixed-methods vignette study with 354 U.S. participants to examine how S&P contr",
  "authors": "Jabari Kwesi, Jiaxun Cao, Hailee Cunningham, Pardis Emami-Naeini",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance,transparency",
  "orgs": "openai,google",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-07T15:10:18.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:55:59.928Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-hci",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.HC",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10189",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06371v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}