a lot of people have truly deficient social skills. technology didn't make them this way they're just bad at it, so bad that they can't even have enough social

a lot of people have truly deficient social skills. technology didn't make them this way they're just bad at it, so bad that they can't even have enough social interactions to improve and practice. can't even hold a conversation with a cashier. they simply lack the skills to be part of a community. ideally such people could build remedial social skills by practicing with a real therapist. but that's costly and difficult to make accessible, because "bad at conversation and annoying" is not a mental illness. an LLM here could help. just to give someone a sense of how to hold simple, normal conversations and practice very basic theory of mind, to the point where they could start building real social skills. the problem is whoever builds that system may choose to exploit the users and build dependence. but that's a choice, it doesn't have to happen.