That's quite the false dichotomy. You wouldn't hook people in with such a simple script, the problem with LLMs is that they appear to be rather good at getting

That's quite the false dichotomy. You wouldn't hook people in with such a simple script, the problem with LLMs is that they appear to be rather good at getting inside people's heads. I rather think it would be a security concern if your simple no-AI website somehow managed to dispatch each user submission to a dedicated expert psychotherapist case worker, with instructions only to keep them talking as long as possible...