Just my likely unpopular opinion, I think this is not the right question to be answered first. In my own personal and likely unpopular opinion I think the righ

Just my likely unpopular opinion, I think this is not the right question to be answered first. In my own personal and likely unpopular opinion I think the right question to ask first is "Should one assign personification or anthropomorphism to a chat bot?" The answer I believe the answer is a resounding NO, especially if that bot is not hosted locally and prevented from ever talking to the internet. I will delve even further into conspiracy or spoilers and suggest that this act will put people of all ages and security clearances at risk of volunteering sensitive information to corporations that will self-profile their psychological profile, personal secrets, habits and other potentially dark patterns. Chat bots are the next evolution beyond social programming through social media algorithm manipulation and should be avoided at all costs unless one has the discipline to know consciously and continuously treat the bot as a data-feed into a corporation. What's more is that with time the bot will gain the trust of it's human target and slowly but progressively manipulate the targets behavior from algorithm changes by the bots operators. So to expand on the question posited by WSJ, the answer depends on what one wants the corporation they are interactive with, the third-party data brokers purchasing the data, questionable organizations and ultimately their government to know about them. Once that data is captured and sold, erasing it would be as feasible as deleting a picture that was shared on anonymous chan boards regardless of statutes.