Why don't people use chatbots?

Bizarrely, the poll questions seem to assume that chatbots actually work, that they give responsive, informative, correct answers.

I'm anxiously awaiting Pew Research's poll results on why people don't ride unicorns to work.

Necessity is the mother of invention!... I think we need to give it time until people get used to seeing AI as a basic necessity.

Feels like 1999 and we are asking "why don't people use the internet?"

Give it a couple years..

Chat bots can be fun and semi useful for a while (talking about the 1990s to early 2000s IRC factoid and other bots [1]) but people get tired of them and kick+ban them from the server after a bit. I will admit that getting 2 or 3 of them to argue with each other can be amusing for a few minutes.

Whether chatting 1:1 or in a chat server I suspect modern day LLM's are not going to be much different. After a while having an overly confident and often incorrect user in the chat is going to get old and people will kick it out with time. LLM's are just a accumulation of knowledge slurped up from the web and much of that knowledge is incorrect misinformation.

Personally I think LLM's + big data were cart before the horse. What should have occurred first was to clean up all the garbage information on the internet before the scraping, regurgitating and effectively plagiarizing the garbage data. Also, get rid of the human mimicry and pandering. It's a bot. Act like a bot. Stop pretending to be my buddy and stop saying every stupid thing I say is a wonderful idea. That just makes me question the money spent on this beast. If a person does that to me I just stop talking to them.

[1] - https://infobot.sourceforge.net/guide-0.43.x.html unsupported, just a piece of history