These pieces really do make it clear that it's not so much that men like this view chatbots as human women. It's that they don't actually view women as humans. We're flattery machines that are defective if we don't sufficiently flatter them.

Source: own work (of course)

my dog when he finds out that not only did he get actual chicken last night, he's going on a ride somewhere to get 'fixed'

No I was 11 in 2014 so this all feels like business as usual to me