Yes. I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic, but I'll assume not.
I don't know if anything is genuinely always positive and even if it were, I don't know if it would be very intelligent (or fun to interact with). I think it's helpful to cry, helpful to feel angry, helpful to feel afraid, and many other states of being that cultures often label as negative. I also think most of us watch movies and series that have a full range of emotions, not just the ones we label as positive, as they bring a richness to life and allow us to solve problems that other emotions don't.
For example, it's hard to lift heavy things while feeling very happy. Try lifting something heavy while laughing hard, quite difficult. It's hard to sleep while feeling excited, as many kids know before a holiday where they receive gifts, especially Christmas in the US. It's hard to survive without feeling fear of falling off a cliff. It's hard to stand up for what one wants and believes without some anger.
I worry that language and communication may become even more conflict avoidant than it already is right now, so I'm curious to see how some of these chatbots grow in their ability to address and resolve conflict and how that impacts us.
I wasn't being sarcastic. I also think it's helpful to cry and be angry at times, to be human, and I think it's absurd to think that we will turn into .. not that, if we sometimes use an AI chatbot app that doesn't express those same emotions.
It's like if people said the same thing about Clippy when it came out.
I think it depends on the frequency and intensity with which we use such a tool. Just like language learning, if someone reads a few words of Spanish per week, they probably won't learn Spanish. If they fall in love with someone who only speaks Spanish and want to have deep conversations with that person, they may learn very quickly. If they live in a country where they have to speak Spanish every waking hour for a few months, they also may learn quickly.
While some people may use an AI chatbot a few times per week to ask basic questions about how to format a Word document, I imagine many other people will use them much more frequently and engage in a much deeper emotional way, and the effect on their communication patterns worries me more than the person who uses it very casually.
