I know a women who told that LLM is the best psychotherapist, better than friends or payed specialist... When I was in childhood I was sure that psychotherapist will be the last industry to get shortened due to must-be AI revolution.
There were stories like that about the old Eliza program. All it did was reframe what was typed into a question but that was enough to get some people to talk about their feelings and, in some cases, work through issues. So I can see an LLM being a better version of Eliza.
