So you want introduce laws and regulations that stifle innovation in order to prevent inefficient bureaucracies that stifle innovation?
Not making it exactly human/animal like won't help that much, the underlying features that make the bot useful such as graceful moment, well enunciated speech or deep conversation will make it feel more human like no matter what form they take.
The point is that if a chatbot gets sophisticated enough to say these things we can't dismiss them out of hand due to things like logical inconsistencies. Humans have tons of those. It's not a large leap to assume approximating consciousness with so little would have similar bugs and shortcuts. I think if the chatbot is asking you to be nice you should re-evaluate why you're being a dick to a piece of software and not trying to prove that it ultimately doesn't matter because the thing isn't a person. Same goes for kicking the Boston Dynamics robot. Your drywall isn't even sonething people anthropomorphize, but punch holes in it and you'll see how their perception of you changes.
How we treat objects bleeds into how we treat one another. Indeed, some of us were and are still considered property.
Your spell/grammar checker is not offended at your cuss words even if it flags them as not recommended. The Boston Dynamics dog took the kick as input to its dynamic stability algorithm, and instantly forgot it without a trace.
What people think about you for punching the wall has absolutely nothing to do with the wall, and everything to do with your character.
If your chatbot regurgitates a request to be nice, that means exactly as much as your Magic 8 Ball saying "Answer cloudy, ask again later."