why do people like chatbots

  • chatbots powerful due to immediacy, direct imitation
  • loneliness, hyper-individualism
  • speed
  • context-specific
  • some ppl just do better with ‘natural language’?
  • disability and hands-free curb cut effect - ease of text-to-speech and speech-to-text
  • perceived neutrality and expertise - so dangerous - technology is not neutral - ai misinformation