This is the Star Trek Future we actually got...

It wouldn't be Data, though, it'd be the ship's computer.

Not only does it have a natural language interface, it is canonically shown that they do both searches and generate images and games in the holodeck by entering prompts.

There are at least a couple of examples of them getting wonky or imperfect image generation output from the holodeck in particular and refining it via modifying those prompts multiple times. And there are certainly a ton of examples of the holodeck messing up a prompt. Honestly it seems to fail more often than it succeeds. One time Geordi asked it to generate a famous scientist/love interest and then when we meet the real person they turn out to be completely different than the AI sexbot the computer generated the first time. Famously, and underbaked prompt leads the holodeck to hallucinate an entire sentient being. We are aware for a fact of a specific character using it to make deepfake porn of his coworkers.

One of the very first times we see the holodeck Picard almost gets people killed by having it generate a noir detective videogame and by the end of the gaming session the holodeck has hallucinated a villain that kills themselves by walking out of the deck and a character that is asking questions about its own sentience and what happens when the deck is turned off.

Say what you will about TNG, but they got this surprisingly right.

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It wouldn't be Data, though, it'd be the ship's computer.
Not only does it have a natural language interface, it is canonically shown that they do both searches and generate images and games in the holodeck by entering prompts.
There are at least a couple of examples of them getting wonky or imperfect image generation output from the holodeck in particular and refining it via modifying those prompts multiple times. And there are certainly a ton of examples of the holodeck messing up a prompt. Honestly it seems to fail more often than it succeeds. One time Geordi asked it to generate a famous scientist/love interest and then when we meet the real person they turn out to be completely different than the AI sexbot the computer generated the first time. Famously, and underbaked prompt leads the holodeck to hallucinate an entire sentient being. We are aware for a fact of a specific character using it to make deepfake porn of his coworkers.
One of the very first times we see the holodeck Picard almost gets people killed by having it generate a noir detective videogame and by the end of the gaming session the holodeck has hallucinated a villain that kills themselves by walking out of the deck and a character that is asking questions about its own sentience and what happens when the deck is turned off.
Say what you will about TNG, but they got this surprisingly right.
Computer. Open airlock door, wait for me to enter, countdown 30 seconds and eject.
- That's a great idea! Opening the airlock door is a basic function of any shipboard computer... etc
I don't use AI text bots, but I do watch south park. Does it really talk like that?
- Yes. Including, for a period, when Grok would insert the supposed plight of oppressed whites in South Africa into literally everything.
- What's even worse are the idiots to eat it up and think the bot thinks or is in any way intelligent or correct. Like Randy. There are way too many Randy's in the world.