I was online chatting at a web site to repair my lawn tractor. Once I finished, I said, “So you’re a chatbot. Cool.”

I’m sure I was talking to a chatbot program and not a human. The reply was a brief but emphatic “No!”

I’m not sure how to interpret that. Will a company be honest about whether you are talking to a human or a chatbot? Should it? Must it?

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