Comment by freakynit

Generally agree to your points, but, these things vary from person to person, and context to context.

1. chatbots on sites: I personally hate them too. But, instead of having no one to reply to, having even a 50% functioning bot is still good. It doesnt leave you with no answers. I have personally befitted a lot from these especially on tech sites when my questions were related to their documentations or integrations.

2. 100% agree. So many agents are there. I use none of them. But, I do use a lot of these.. all hand-crafted, and they work pretty great.

3. Talikng to chatbots: People have befitted form these, psychologically, as well as un-alived themselves. Similar to knives analogy. Both sets exist. I personally have mostly benefited.

4. Socialize wth fake not-real AI profiles: Again varies from person to person and the situation they are in. They are genuinely fun to chat with once you give them some character. For example, in my case, I once gave them a character(for roleplaying) of a regular no-shit-giving-attitude guy from a hood, and chatted with them in proper hood language (I dont know what the proper word is for this language). IT was real fun. At the same time, these tools are no replacement for actually talking to a human. At least not yet.