Where did all the hype over shitty chat bots come from? It seemed to fill up HN and every tech publication overnight. Now even Skype, an application for chattin

Where did all the hype over shitty chat bots come from? It seemed to fill up HN and every tech publication overnight. Now even Skype, an application for chatting with real people, has a bots tab. It was clear from the get go it was just another way to push ads.