[focuser]

It's indeed wrong to try to trick people. But the real question is that if you already know that it's a robot, are you still be willing to talk to it? What if the robot sounds like this: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/linton-ye/episodes/C...

[JohnFen]

> if you already know that it's a robot, are you still be willing to talk to it?

In the absence of some sort of really compelling reason to, no I wouldn't. It would signal to me that the company doesn't actually value me enough to treat me as a person. Also, I'm not interested in having a "conversation" with a machine, but that's more of a personal preference sort of deal.