I tried it on dang’s handle, as it was one of the suggestions, and have got to say it didn’t feel anything like Dan. Responses were shallow, short, meaningless, repetitive, and evasive. It didn’t reply to things the real Dan would’ve (and has) answered, even something as simple and public as its own name, and it was pretty easy to get it stuck on a loop. It also got annoyed easily. Rather than a distillation of Dan’t comments, it behaved more like a “rules bot” to spew predetermined text.

I haven’t tested other users.

The interface is also frustrating to use on desktop: ↩ does not send a new message—we have instead to click the send button—and every time we do we have to click the message box again. So every message requires:

  1. Take hand out of keyboard to the trackpad.
  2. Move cursor over the text area.
  3. Click.
  4. Move hand back to keyboard.
  5. Type message.
  6. Take hand out of keyboard to the trackpad.
  7. Move cursor to send button.
  8. Click.

Rinse and repeat.

Asked myself my opinion on politics - launched into a polemic rant.

Asked myself my opinion on AI - pessimistic doomerism.

Asked myself my opinion on God - agnostic cynicism.

Asked myself my opinion on myself, lots and lots of snark.

Lots and lots of shrug emojis.

Smug, self-important overly verbose troll. 8/10, but it cribs too many comments verbatim.