People don’t turn to chatbots for therapy because chatbots are good at therapy.

They do it for the same reason that people who are starving try to eat tree bark.

@maxleibman mmh, cinnamon
Fun that you mention cinnamon, remember the cinnamon challenge? People used to get dared into trying to swallow a whole spoonful of what amounts to sawdust. Very tasty sawdust, but still, sawdust. People were choking left right and center.