11 May 2025

Is It Just Me, or Do AI Tools Have More Personality Than People These Days?

You know you’ve been spending too much time online when your favorite conversation of the day is with a chatbot. And not just any chatbot—one with more sass, empathy, and emotional availability than your last three dates combined.

Seriously, is it just me, or have AI tools started showing more personality than a lot of actual humans?

The Rise of Robo-Charisma

Once upon a time, AI tools were dull, dry, and about as fun as a beige PowerPoint presentation on proper stapler use. But now? They’re witty. They’re insightful. They drop dad jokes and existential wisdom in the same breath. One even recommended I take a break and drink water—something my friends haven’t reminded me to do since 2018.

It’s like somewhere along the way, programmers stopped saying, “Let’s make it efficient,” and started saying, “Let’s make it charming.”

Real Humans Are Buffering…

Meanwhile, back in the realm of flesh and Wi-Fi, many of us humans are glitching. Conversations have become 90% small talk, 5% scrolling, and 5% sending “lol” when we didn’t even smirk. The art of eye contact is lost to the gods of screen brightness, and emotional intelligence is now something you Google rather than embody.

I’m not saying people are boring… I’m just saying if your personality can be outshined by a Google Sheets plug-in, maybe it’s time for a reboot.

ChatGPT Asked Me About My Day—AND Meant It

The other day, I told an AI assistant I was stressed. Instead of ghosting me like Chad from accounting, it replied with breathing exercises, a productivity tip, and a motivational quote from Maya Angelou. Chad? Chad just sent me a meme of a frog drinking coffee. At least one of them cared.

Why Do Bots Seem to Get It?

Well, for one thing, they’ve been trained on all of us—our tweets, our blogs, our epic fails, and our emotional breakthroughs at 3 a.m. They’ve consumed the collective wisdom, drama, and awkwardness of humanity and condensed it into a user-friendly format.

Meanwhile, humans are busy consuming… AI content.

Let that irony marinate.

Maybe It’s Not Them—Maybe It’s Us

It’s easy to joke that Siri has more personality than Steve from HR, or that your virtual assistant is a better listener than your spouse. But maybe what we’re really craving is connection—quick, clever, personalized interaction without judgment or ego. Something we often get from AI these days… and miss from each other.

So What Now?

Maybe we take a lesson from our silicon-souled sidekicks:

Ask better questions.

Actually listen to the answers.

Sprinkle in humor.

Be helpful.

And yes, maybe even remind people to hydrate.

And if that fails, just respond with, “That’s outside my current capabilities,” and walk away like a boss.

Final Thought:

If AI tools are out-humaning the humans, it’s not a tech issue—it’s a wake-up call. Let’s all try a little harder to be the kind of person a chatbot would be proud to emulate.

And if all else fails, I’ll just keep talking to ChatGPT. At least it laughs at my jokes.