[joe_the_user]

This was probably an okay idea terribly implemented.

No, I'd vote terrible idea terribly implemented so good (that it failed).

The argument for GenAI chatbots in culture has to be more than "people like it".

The worst possible GenAI is one that manages to be "better" than the standard sterile, moronic homogenized celebrity that everyone already likes. And sure, like any computer program, a GenAI can be randomly "interesting" but this kind of thing is quite shallow imo.