A new app that gives each user a private, Twitter-like social network populated exclusively by chatbots has stoked a wider debate about the purpose and value of online communication.
The big picture: At first blush, SocialAI, the all-bot platform, might sound like "pure artifice" or an "AI void" — but its 28-year old creator pitches it as an antidote to the toxicity of today's "real" social media.