How much longer 'don't speak unless spoken to?'

In the short term I am sure the likes of ChatGTP will be very popular. I have been using it to answer specific questions or to create images for example. Traditional Google searches will soon be a thing of the past. Did I say ‘traditional?’ How long did that tradition last? Anyway, ChatGTP is still free to use, so one might as well take advantage of it. But when it has reached maximum market penetration, charges will be applied. Adverts will proliferate. And it will know so much more about you, and that knowledge will be used in a much more analytical way than previously thought possible. But for the time being we will in our innocence latch on to this new boon. I confess I am increasingly hooked. And it’s so bloody polite I find myself saying—to an unconscious machine—’please’ and ‘thank you.’ Imagine the absurdity of it. Nobody in the 1950s who put a penny into a ‘I speak your weight’ machine would ever get off saying ‘thank you!’ (Well, they wouldn’t would they?) I hope the new, more insidious phenomenon of responsive machines and our response to them will be urgently investigated by psychologists. Our species may be terminally anthropocentric but this new effort of the techbros to humanise their addictive technologies could be quite dangerous, thank you. No, seriously thank you. Please confirm your humanity, as we like to say.