[timeagain]

this reminds me of a bit in an Adam Curtis documentary HyperNormalization. In the 80s someone created a “Carl Rogers” chat bot that would always respond with phrases like “how does that make you feel?”. It had far less smarts than SHRDLU (basically a glorified for loop) but people who used it said that they did feel better after interacting with it.

[shnksi]

Hopefully it asks more intelligent questions when necessary but the idea is similar. It's just someone you can talk to and express your emotions to.