With such an absolute statement, I’ll go ahead and disprove it by saying I wanna talk to that chatbot

I’m sure there are plenty of 12 year olds that, like me at that age, would spend all day talking to a chat bot.

Put the chat bot in a video game where I have to talk to the bot to solve a puzzle or learn about the game world and I’ll talk to it, too.

For everyone that isn’t reading the article (both here and on the HN discussion), it’s not saying not to build a chatbot.

It’s saying that site/brand chatbots are primarily going to be consumed by users’ AI assistants.

So you might say to ChatGPT or Siri that you need a new pair of shoes.

ChatGPT in the background talks to chatbots on a bunch of shoe sites and asks you further questions to narrow down options.

So much like search engines became the primary interface for finding value on the web a generation ago, AI assistants will be the primary filter for domain specific chatbots.

While technically in line with the headline, extrapolating from the headline without reading the article is 100% leading misinterpreted comments.