yeah I just don’t get why someone would want to have a conversation with a chatbot. Is it just comfort? There is no repercussion to sounding ignorant, or mean spirited, or depressed, etc. So I get why if you feel the need to chit chat something that can fundamentally not stonewall you could feel good, but you aren’t progressing in any form of real relationship, there is nothing on the other end that hears what you told it, its an empty enigma of information that will be spit out what you told it to some other person who finds its comforting to spew their thoughts into that void. Its also shit as an intermediary, even text leaves out basically every form of emotion, body language, tonality, etc. to socializing, why would you want your message to be tailored into something you didn’t come up with.

I find that you have to have some outlet where you are able to just get lost in that thing. I don’t look at the pursuit of happiness of something you focus on, but the resisting of unhappiness being something that you improve by doing things that you don’t exactly focus on but your mind gets lost doing them, this doens’t mean your mind is not working, its similar to a flow state, your mind feels at ease even if the task is challenging or just something simple as talking a walk in nature.