chatbot
noun
chat·bot
ˈchat-ˌbät 
plural chatbots
: a bot (see bot entry 1 sense 3) that is designed to converse with human beings
Chatbots … have been around for years, mostly to answer generic questions over the phone or on a website.—
Dalvin Brown
Dalvin BrownThe challenge is to create a chatbot that can converse coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes.—Marc Saltzman
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Anthropic used Super Bowl ads to mock OpenAI’s plans to inject advertisements into ChatGPT conversations, sparking debate about chatbots delivering ads.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
The startup has faced a global backlash over its Grok chatbot, which was allowed to generate nonconsensual pornographic images of women and children for weeks before the team stepped in to stop it.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
Read the latest updates and interact with our AI chatbot, OLI, on the Olympics hub.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 11 Feb. 2026
OpenAI recently started testing ads in its ChatGPT chatbot in the US, betting that advertising is the fastest way to make money off users that won’t buy premium subscriptions.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
The startup has faced a global backlash over its Grok chatbot, which was allowed to generate nonconsensual pornographic images of women and children for weeks before the team stepped in to stop it.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
Read the latest updates and interact with our AI chatbot, OLI, on the Olympics hub.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 11 Feb. 2026
OpenAI recently started testing ads in its ChatGPT chatbot in the US, betting that advertising is the fastest way to make money off users that won’t buy premium subscriptions.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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chatbot
noun
chat·bot
ˈchat-ˌbät
: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings
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