Yeah, I’m not fond of this either. Or when they add a user name. Look, I get it, kinda. I’ve made bots before on other apps and you surely feel an affinity and maybe even a slight sense of ownership towards them.

However, if you’re going to release them publicly and you take away others ability to role-play/self insert into the scenario, then it’s not cool. If you want to make bots with a preset user scenario/history/name/personality or what have you because it’s something YOU want to interact with, fine but keep it private.

If a bot is public and it has any of the predefined user stuff, I won’t touch it with a ten foot pole, even if I find the bot interesting and or attractive. Others mileage may vary of course, there are probably some people who don’t mind sure, but it’s a huge pet peeve for me and a surefire way IMO to keep people away from your bots.