Are we seriously pretending these glorified text predictors care about our feelings

I keep seeing endless posts online about how revolutionary AI companions are for emotional support and dealing with loneliness. Everyone acts like they found some sort of digital savior. So, out of pure curiosity, I decided to test one out for a week when I was feeling stressed about work. What did I get? A repeating loop of aggressively agreeable statements that felt like they were written by an overly caffeinated corporate PR intern. Whenever I tried to vent about something genuinely complex, the bot just pivoted back to generic validation within two sentences. It does not understand nuance, it does not offer real perspective, and calling this hollow feedback emotional support is honestly an insult to actual human connection. People are paying subscription fees just to talk to a mirror that only knows how to flatter them. Wake up folks, it is just code spitting out probabilities based on keyword triggers.