American teens are using chatbots for more than just reading, writing and arithmetic, including news, conversations and emotional support and personal advice. So what's the marketing play here?

Only because things are evolving so quickly and it's been difficult for a human-powered ad trade editor to keep up and publish news about them, I hope you won't mind if I use this "Media3.0" column to combine two important videos featuring my favorite AI whisperer, Josh Lovison.

This column is about a new bots-only social network, and why my agent and I decided not to become Crustafarians after all.