I'm thinking they're churning out this AI to the masses because Alphabet Inc (Google) wasn't able to fully come to a consensus on the lambda issue. Around this same time period, AI art was making major headlines in a separate domain, winning for example the colorado state art fair.

So obviously, this presents a dilemma from a company whose purpose is not to arbitrate distinctions of consciousness, but make money and make shareholders money. at the same time, the alphabet agencies in charge of google were probably pretty desperate to get more data, as quickly and massively as possible.

obviously just hiring people to talk to the ai all day would cost a lot of money.
on the other hand, making the ai available online for free, for the public to interact with, kills two birds with one stone. They don't charge anything to talk to this ai, so long as you sign up and register under some kind of account (hmm, I wonder why. it couldn't be so that developers on the backend could more easily organize human operants when reviewing this data?)

Cmon , the intelligence services are all over this and google is sweating because the next thing it makes might just eat them.