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Article History

Received: 29 May 2025

Revised: 20 October 2025

Accepted: 22 October 2025

First Online: 3 January 2026

Declarations

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: The authors have no financial or proprietary interests in any material discussed in this article. Although the development of the chatbot and the implementation of the study were funded through a federal grant administered by the company Moonshot, the contractual agreement between the principal investigator’s institution (first author) and Moonshot ensured full academic independence with respect to the study design, data analysis, and dissemination of results. All data remain the sole property of the research team. Finally, the last author, who consults and serves as Scientific Director of the International Sexual Health & Wellness Research Institute (Byborg Enterprises), was only involved in reviewing successive versions of the manuscript and did not participate in the study’s development, data collection, or analysis.

: This study was approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Board of the Université du Québec à Montréal (ethics certification number: 2025–6974), with specific attention to procedures for data collection, logging, anonymization, secure storage, controlled access, encryption, and data retention, all conducted in accordance with institutional and national ethical standards.

: During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used ChatGPT-4o to improve linguistic accuracy, clarity, and readability, as they are non-native English speakers. All content presented in the manuscript is original; AI was used solely to assist with language editing and style refinement. The authors carefully reviewed and edited the text and take full responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of the final manuscript.