The meme presupposes the usefulness of AI, which is why everyone’s taking it as a given. If it isn’t useful, you don’t need to use normative arguments to stop people from using it, people will just naturally never find an opportunity to do so.
Also if you really can’t think of any ways to use a chatbot to advance your political goals you need to think harder. It just shows a lack of adaptability.
It sounds like that Chinese phrase is better translated as “republic”, then, as the definition you give is almost exactly equivalent. Republic and democracy aren’t synonymous in western political thought, although they’re often linked and conflated.