Google isn't like all those other bots, lol. It is a multi trillion dollar company used as a search engine. Scanning the internet for the information. Google Search does operate on artificial intelligence.
There are way more bots now than back then, you could randomly be arguing with one somewhere. And have no idea. Users of the internet are mostly all bots now. More bots than humans.
"But I haven’t interacted with one except for the annoying merge requests on GitHub."
You probably wouldn't even know now if you did, it is getting harder to tell bot from human.
A side note-The flashing blue light mobile surveillance security units weird me out. The ones like when you pull up in a parking lot and see that blinking light, it scared the shit out of me at first. It kind of looked like a flashing cop car at night.
There are cards called green dot money pak, you can only pay cash for them. Well, the kind I bought. You scratch off the back and tell somebody the number. The one I used only had a one time use. Usually I seen people giving money to people that are in jail. Or people try to scam, usually scamming old people. It is actually a good private way to send people money.
Your friendly anonymous.