my understanding is that "indistinguishable from random" and "meaningless ... bot putting up phrases" is the critique of small talk that this art piece is trying to get at?
Maybe I'm not getting something about the UI that is obvious.
Later in the design we added some details to hopefully get that across to as many people as possible. The biggest being "connect to other humans" that bounces in over the elevator button before you can call it. The others are maybe a bit too tucked away in the info (?) area.
I think with the amount of traffic in the last 12hrs everyone does start to look like a bot though!