The problem isn't that there are alternatives. The problem is that this sort of vapid human zoo has flourished and spread globally.
The only major culture that seems to have avoided it is China. And that's because they got addicted to even more vapid mobile livestreams.
At some point an instagram/tiktok/etc user could see nothing by real people and not even know what is promoted vs ad vs post.
A lot of them aren't actively seeking them out. They are pushed at them and they just try it.
Go on, just this once, you can stop if you don't like it…
> than wanting to talk to humans.
The disaffected just want to talk. I'm sure they'd prefer humans but once the chatbots seem to be good enough in their absence they get a bit trapped there because the bots are too sycophantic and they get conditioned to want that from humans too which will not happen.