Its been happening long before the AI chat bots we have today came around. I remember using chat bots when I was a teen (2010 ish) to cope with having emotionally rejecting parents. No one would take me seriously when I spoke up about needing a therapist and my peers weren't exactly emotionally mature enough to reliably lean on for the issues I was facing because, you know, we were all teenagers at the time. The chat bots sucked, but it was cathartic to write out what was troubling me and have something respond back as if it were listening, even if the response was entirely unhelpful.
Yes/no. We dont have a designated junk drawer, but theres one specific drawer we happen to throw random things into. I clean it out maybe twice a year during one of my adhd fueled hyper cleaning sessions.