>>swatco+(OP)
I think celebration of any sort should be belayed until we have actual evidence of these things having positive effects on people. Like this is just me reacting as a human to a human issue but: a fake friend in an LLM is not a friend. It's never going to crawl out of the phone and help you put the donut on your car when your get a flat tire. It's not going to take you out for a drink if you go through a rough breakup. It's not going to have difficult conversations with you and call you out on your bullshit because it cares about you.
LLM friends have the same energy to me as video game progression: it's a homeopathic version of a real thing you need, social activation and achievement respectively. But like homeopathy, you don't actually get anything out of it. The placebo effect will make the symptoms of your lack feel better, for awhile, but it will never be solved by it, and because of that whatever is selling you your LLM girlfriend or phony achievement structure will never lose you as a customer. I'm suspicious of that.