Is it that surprising? It was not meant to be a companion. It's a search engine. The psychological horror posters were engineering the engine to produce wildly unhinged replies. For a layman, and the far-too-empathetic these replies seem very human. For someone who has a strong grasp on world language, psychological development, and computer science (like myself and plenty of others) it is obvious noise.

Microsoft cant have their AI vomiting literary noise based on an the wack-o ex-girlfriend texts out there.