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Why does it have to be black and white? Why can't a bot do the exploration and notetaking along with people in the channel?
That's not how I interpreted it as being in this instance, but it could certainly be that way. I guess that'd be like keeping all correspondence in a shoe box (to be reviewed later -- or maybe never), or maybe the automated recording of my phone calls with others (which is completely legal where I am; I don't even have to tell them). And I suppose whether I felt that would be creepy or not depends a lot upon intent,…
Sometimes it's just a really good interface that matches the task well.
Think of all the people that still avoided getting a computer a decade or two ago, because "online" was so unnatural and creepy to them. Obviously, the internet had and has those places. And frankly a lot of social media still is.
But it can also just be wikipedia, making flight reservations, etc. When that is all it is doing, what you want it to do, that is all it is.
An automated language interface can just be a really good note collector/collator.
Personally, I look forward to the wise, well dressed, well spoken, waist-up robot bartenders we have been promised by movies for decades. Not creepy at all!