<p>There are people who view talking to an LLM as helpful or even therapeutic.</p><p>We know this already since people reported feeling "understood" by Eliza (Weizenbaum et al).</p><p>Any mockery or calling people "stupid" even if they fall back on LLMs to talk to shows a lack of understanding how sad and miserable and lonely and disconnected too many people's lives really are.</p><p>We all hug - mentally or physically - sooner or later the proverbial wireframe with fur glued on.</p>
