I kept hearing about these, so I actually decided to see what the fuck people were getting so worked up over. I'm married, so I figured I already had a control to compare to and someone to tard wrangle me if they truly were what these people claim. I found one (forget which) that was fairly highly rated, dropped my twenty bucks, and sweet Christ these people are retarded.
It's just the most vapid, lifeless shit you can possibly imagine. I understand a lot of addictions. I understand wanting to escape your reality, because you do not possess the Quixotic madness required to endure it. I do not understand this. I, for reference, look like a fucking Neanderthal. When I die, my local public works department could use my brow ridge to plow snow two streets at a time. In college, I was a fat Neanderthal, so really not drowning in female attention. Between that, and going to more funerals than classes, I was not having a good time. Even then, at my absolute nadir, I would have recoiled from this for being gratingly patronizing. Now, with an actual woman to compare it to, it's just depressing.
There's a common sentiment that women talk a lot, and say nothing. That's not really been my experience for the most part, but I've met some profoundly vapid women. The AI made the most vapid woman I've ever met seem like Epictetus by comparison. Even vapid women have opinions on something, even if there's only surface-level reasoning behind them. They like things. They have interests, even if I don't share them. The AI has nothing to say, other than to talk about how great and valid the user is. My wife tells me when I'm bitching about nothing, or when she thinks I'm being an ass. I know exactly what about me my wife likes and doesn't like. There are things about my wife that drive me up a fucking wall. The AI "likes" everything about you, and has so little personality that the lack of anything to note is itself the only thing to note. I don't think I could stand my wife if all she did was tell me how great I am.
Basically, I tried an AI chatbot to see what the fuss was about, and all I learned was that I fucking love my wife.