Retraction to: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02021-1, published online 24 August 2023.

The Chief Editor has retracted this article because the authors could not provide evidence that this study, based on an online survey involving frequent users of intelligent personal assistants, had been approved by an appropriate institutional review board before the survey was conducted. Hyeon Jo and Eun-Mi Baek have not replied to correspondence from the Publisher.