I'm a little confused, you don't seem to be the person I replied to earlier.

Active listening is typically what people want and need. Most days, everything else reads as either an interruption or as bullshit, when a person wants to be heard.

The other element in those conversations is empathy. No bot can accomplish that piece. It’s a case of black and white, there or not, and it is a bot.

I think when people fill the silence with crap like “everything happens for a reason” they’re trying to push the idea of empathy in a way that comes off about as well as a bot trying to emulate a human.

That's just deists being deists. Unfortunately, there's nothing to be done about completely competing mindsets effectively solely offering platitudes to one another.

And it's what google's LLM offered, way back when "AI" was new and exciting and on the news everywhere, so there might be something to that assessment. I just referenced my very dated memory of a thing I saw like twice.

You think llms can produce sincere, emotionally touching, non-parasocial relationships? That, I disagree with.