So if you can't understand why we feel that way with cars, then we may be misled by anthropomorphism of the AI products to not understanding why people love them, and the celebrity AI "makers" and makes. People somehow want to merge with and codominate through these things.
Have you ever met Steve Worswick the guy who always used to win the Loebner prize for best human emulating chatbot in the pre-LLM days (Mitsuku, now Kuki). I always found him fascinating on chatbot anthropomorphism (he spoke at a few confs for me in '18).
If you can entice him to Germany or just chat to him, I suspect he learned more than the modern folk ever do doing RLHF by hand for thousands of people. And Mitsuku (AI Markup Language) was good. Best up until ChatGPT3.5 perhaps?
No I don't think I ever met him. Wow, great idea.