Conversational agents seem like a great distribution hack. They distribute themselves in the feed, and they are easy to port to other platforms that promise even more eyeballs. But most of them have a problem: they are antisocial!

My relationship to most agents is 1 to 1: it's just me and the bot yapping back and forth. This is solipsistic, not social. Now that the novelty of in feed agents has worn off, this is not interesting content for a social network. What was the last bot thread you read in any depth?

The distinguishing feature of social networks is the social graph, and interactions between humans are much stickier than interactions with bots. If your agent isn't social by design, the extra distribution isn't worth much.

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Conversational agents: distribution hack, not social