It wasn't empathy, but it did generate reframings that human reviewers scored higher on the metric "this rethinking is empathic". So it was better at generating

It wasn't empathy, but it did generate reframings that human reviewers scored higher on the metric "this rethinking is empathic". So it was better at generating the impression of empathy. Which is the same standard we generally apply to humans when judging their empathy, even if it is subtly wrong.